Bunbury, Cheshire Family History Guide

Bunbury is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cheshire.

Other places in the parish include: Peckforton, Tiverton, Spurstow, Ridley, Wardle, Haughton, Calveley, Beeston, and Alpraham.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1559
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1588

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Waverton
• Burwardsley
• Wettenhall
• Chester St Oswald
• Malpas
• Tilstone Fearnall
• Tarvin
• Baddiley
• Bickerton
• Tattenhall
• Acton
• Tarporley

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BUNBURY, a township, a parish, and a subdistrict in the district of Nantwich, Cheshire. The township lies on the Chester canal and the Chester and Crewe railway, near the Calveley station, 3½ miles SSE of Tarporley; and it has a post office of the name of Higher Bunbury, under Tarporley, and fairs on 11 and 12 Feb., and 30 and 31 July. Acres, 1,140. Real property, £4,229. Pop., 990. Houses, 209. The parish contains also the townships of Tiverton, Tilstone-Fearnall, Beeston, Alpraham, Calveley, Wardle, Haughton, Spurstow, Ridley, Peckforton, and Burwardsley. Acres, 16,830. Real property, £28,879. Pop., 4,727. Houses, 927. The manor belonged to Hugh Lupus; and passed to the Bunburys. A college for a master and six chaplains was founded here, in 1386, by Sir Hugh de Calveley; and was purchased from the Crown, in the time of Elizabeth, by Thomas Aldersey of London, who gave the income for charitable uses. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacies of Peckforton and Calveley, in the diocese of Chester. Value, £117. Patrons, the Haberdashers’ Company. The church is later English; has a side chapel and a pinnacled tower; was injured by the royalists in 1643; underwent complete restoration in 1865; and contains monuments of Calveley, the Cheshire hero of the 14th century, and Beeston, the commander against the Spanish armada. The p. curacies of Tilstone and Burwardsley are separate benefices. There are seven dissenting chapels, two national schools, and charities £46. The subdistrict contains three parishes and part of another. Pop., 7,959.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Maps

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Administration

• County: Cheshire
• Civil Registration District: Nantwich
• Probate Court: Pre-1541 - Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1540 - Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Pre-1541 - Lichfield and Coventry, Post-1540 - Chester
• Rural Deanery: Nantwich
• Poor Law Union: Nantwich
• Hundred: Eddisbury
• Province: York