Birtles, Cheshire

Historical Description

Birtles, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Alderley parish, Cheshire, 4 miles W by N of Macclesfield. Post, money order, and telegraph office, at Chelford under Crewe. Acreage of the township, 599; population, 60; of the ecclesiastical parish, 445. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1890, and includes the township of Over Alderley. Birtles Hall is the seat of the Hibbert family. A Roman urn and some other Roman relics have been found. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; net value, £193. The church was erected in 1840, and was formerly the domestic chapel of Birtles Hall.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Birtles from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

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.