Hide
Henbury cum Pexall
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
Hide
"HENBURY, a township, joint with Pexall, in the parish of PRESTBURY, hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of CHESTER, 2½ miles (W.) from Macclesfield, containing, with Pexall, 428 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
"PEXALL, a township, joint with Henbury, in the parish of PRESTBURY, hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of CHESTER, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Macclesfield. The population is returned with Henbury." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
Hide
- Henbury cum Pexall was a township in the ancient parishes of Prestbury and Gawsworth, Macclesfield hundred (SJ 8672), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- The civil parish was abolished in 1936 to become part of Henbury.
- It included the hamlets of Fanshawe, Marlheath and Pexhill.
- The population was 333 in 1801, 464 in 1851, and 368 in 1901.
Hide
- Prestbury: St. Peter (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the greater part (1878 acres) of the township of Henbury cum Pexall.
- Gawsworth: St. James (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the smaller part (56 acres) of the township of Henbury cum Pexall.
- Henbury: St. Thomas (Church of England). The district church for Henbury cum Pexall from 1845.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Henbury cum Pexall to another place.
- 1936 April 1 — Abolished and incorporated into Henbury (1934 acres, pop. 352 in 1931)
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ881736 (Lat/Lon: 53.259267, -2.179844), Henbury cum Pexall which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Macclesfield Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Macclesfield Rural District (1894-1936)