Capenhurst, Cheshire
Historical Description
Capenhurst, a village and a township in Shotwick parish, and an ecclesiastical parish in Shotwick and Neston parishes, Cheshire. The township is 6 miles NNW of Chester, and has a station on the Birkenhead railway. Post town, Little Sutton, under Chester. Acreage, 1204; population, 158. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1859, and includes the township of Ledsham. Population, 241. Capenhurst Hall is the seat of the lord of the manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester; net value, £150. The church was erected in 1857.
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 | Shotwick | |
| Hundred | Wirrall | |
| Poor Law union | Great Boughton | |
| Registration district | Great Boughton | 1837 - 1869 |
| Registration district | Chester | 1870 - 1937 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Capenhurst from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cappenhurst)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Capenhurst 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.