Bosley, Cheshire
Historical Description
Bosley, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish, in Prestbury parish, Cheshire, adjacent to the Macclesfield canal, 5 miles S by W of Macclesfield. The village has a station on the North Staffordshire railway, and a post-office under Congleton, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of township, 3197; population, 364. There is a large reservoir connected with the Macclesfield Canal. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £90 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Prestbury. The church, originally Norman, was rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, in 1777.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cheshire | |
Civil parish | Prestbury | |
Hundred | Macclesfield | |
Poor Law union | Macclesfield |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bosley from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bosley 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:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.