Audlem, Cheshire

Historical Description

Audlem, a market-town, a township, and a parish in Cheshire. The town is 6 miles S of Nantwich, and has a station on the Crewe and Wellington branch of the G.W.R., a post office under Nantwich, and two banks. Acreage, 2348; population, 1371. There is a market on Thursdays. The parish includes also the townships of Buerton, Hankelow, and Titley (or Tittenley), with parts of Dodcot-cum-Wilkeley and Newhall. Population, 2410. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £297. Patron, Viscount Com-bermere. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1885. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists. The parish is purely agricultural.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Audlem from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Audlem (St. James))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Audlem are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cheshire papers online:

• Chester Chronicle
• Cheshire Observer
• Chester Courant

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.