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Compstall, Cheshire

Historical Description

Compstall or Compstall Bridge, a large village in Werneth township, Stockport parish, Chester, 1½ mile from Marple Junction station on the M.R., and 5 miles E of Stockport. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stockport. There are large cotton mills. There is a public assembly room called the Athenaeum. The church was erected in 1840, and is the parish church of the ecclesiastical parish of St Paul's, Warneth, constituted in 1841. Population, 1041. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £150. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient CountyCheshire 
Civil parishStockport 
HundredMacclesfield 
Poor Law unionStockport 

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


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Compstall from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

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


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.

DistrictStockport
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtSK6
Post TownStockport

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