Place:Stockham, Cheshire, England

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NameStockham
Alt namesBrookvalesource: hamlet in parish
TypeTownship, Civil parish
Coordinates53.323°N 2.681°W
Located inCheshire, England     ( - 1936)
See alsoRuncorn, Cheshire, Englandancient parish of which it was a township
Bucklow Hundred, Cheshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Runcorn Registration District, Cheshire, Englandregistration district of which it was part 1837-1936
Runcorn Rural, Cheshire, Englandrural district of which it was part 1894-1936
Norton, Cheshire, Englandcivil parish into which it was absorbed in 1936
source: Family History Library Catalog

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Stockham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"STOCKHAM, a township in Runcorn parish, Cheshire; 3 miles NNE of Frodsham. Acres: 328. Real property: £684. Population: 42. Houses: 6."

The township and parish included parts of the hamlets of Brookvale and Palace Fields. Stockham became a civil parish in 1866. It was located in Runcorn Rural District from 1894 until 1936 when it was absorbed into the neighbouring parish of Norton. The population was 46 in 1851, 34 in 1851, and 38 in 1901. (Source: GENUKI)

There is no article in Wikipedia. Co-ordinates were found with the aid of Google Earth which homed in on Stockham Lane in Runcorn.

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