Leighton with Minshull, Cheshire Family History Guide

Leighton with Minshull is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1850 from Leighton town in Nantwich Ancient Parish and Middlewich Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Minshul Vernon, Minshull, Minshull Vernon, and Bradfield Green.

Alternative names: Leighton, Leighton cum Minshull Vernon

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1840
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1840

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LEIGHTON, a township in Nantwich parish, Cheshire; near the river Weaver, the Middlewich canal, the Northwestern railway, and the Crewe and Chester railway, 3 miles NNW of Crewe.

Acres, 1,244. Real property, £2,306. Pop., 217. Houses, 40. Two old mansions here, now farm-houses, were the seats of the Del Brookes and the Erdswick families.

There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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

Parish Records

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Leighton

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England, Cheshire, Leighton (in Nantwich)

England, Cheshire, Leighton (near Crewe) – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Leighton, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cheshire, Leighton (near Crewe) – Church records ( 1 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Leighton, 1840-1868
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Leighton (near Crewe, Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

England, Cheshire, Leighton (near Crewe) – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Leighton in Nantwich [Leighton, near Crewe], 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Land tax assessments for Nantwich hundred, 1781-1786, 1815-1819
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Minshull Vernon

England, Cheshire, Minshull Vernon – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Peter’s Church, Minshull Vernon, monumental inscriptions
Author: Chadwick, Peter

England, Cheshire, Minshull Vernon – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Minshull Vernon, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cheshire, Minshull Vernon – Church records ( 2 )
Church records, 1809-1824
Author: Cross-Lanes Chapel (near Minshull Vernon, England : Protestant); Cheshire Record Office

Leighton-cum-Marshull Vernon church rate book, 1866-1881
Author: Minshull-Vernon (Cheshire)

England, Cheshire, Minshull Vernon – Taxation ( 3 )
Land tax assessments for Minshull Vernon, 1781-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Land tax assessments for Northwich hundred, 1781-1785, 1815-1819
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office

Leighton-cum-Marshull Vernon church rate book, 1866-1881
Author: Minshull-Vernon (Cheshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

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: Nantwich
  • Province: York