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.
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 Compstall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Compstall)
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:
- 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.