Bredbury, Cheshire
Historical Description
Bredbury, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Stockport parish, Cheshire, adjacent to the Peak Forest Canal, 2¼ miles ENE of Stockport, with a station on the M.S. & L.R., and another at Woodley, a hamlet in this township, at the junction of the same railway with the Cheshire lines. There is a post office at Woodley, under Stockport. The township includes the hamlets of Hatherlow and Woodley. Acreage, 2536; population, 3901. It is governed, together with Romiley, by a local board of 18 members, and contains collieries, brickfields, chemical works, wool-carding works, and two hat manufactories. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1846. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £313 with residence. The church is good, and there are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.
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 | Stockport | |
Hundred | Macclesfield | |
Poor Law union | Stockport |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bredbury from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bredbury 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.