Place:Helsby, Cheshire, England

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Helsby is a large village and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England and administered since 2009 by the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester. At the 2011 UK census, Helsby had a population of 4,972.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Helsby.

Helsby was a township in Frodsham ancient parish in Eddisbury Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1866. It includes the hamlets of Irondish (part) and Teuthill (part). The population was 268 in 1801, 692 in 1851, 1572 in 1901, 2739 in 1951, and 4701 in 2001.

Research Tips

• The GENUKI and UKBMD pages on Cheshire and its parishes point to many other sources of information on places within the county. The many small parishes and townships that existed before 1866 are treated individually as well as the larger towns and conurbations.

• A Vision of Britain through Time provides a series of maps from the Ordnance Survey illustrating the towns and villages of Cheshire and also the borders between parishes. The following group of maps provide views of the county at various dates, illustrating the changes in administrative structure.

• The southern part of Cheshire in the 1830s as far north as Nantwich and Crewe on the east and Coddington on the west.
• The Wirral Peninsula in the 1830s
• The whole of Cheshire in 1888 with Sanitary Districts and 19th century civil parishes outlined
• The county in 1900 with Rural and Urban Districts. This map locates village and hamlets. Unfortunately the copy of the map available online has been annotated, making some parishes difficult to inspect.
• 1931-1944 The county with the numerous revisions to Rural and Urban Districts which occurred in the 1930s. This map locates village and hamlets, but they are more easily seen on the map of 1900.

• Cheshire Archives and Local Studies have organized a facility to compare 19th century maps (including tithe maps circa 1830) with modern Ordnance Survey maps. These are available for every civil parish. The detail is very magnified and it is difficult to read any placenames on the older maps. Cheshire Archives and Local Studies are the local keepers of historical material for the county.

• Brett Langston's list of Registration Districts in Cheshire will lead to specific parishes with dates.