Great Stanney, Cheshire Family History Guide

Great Stanney is an extra-parochial place.

Alternative names: Great Stanney

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Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895

Stanney, Great and Little, two townships in Stoke parish, Cheshire, 7 and 5½ miles N of Chester.

Acreage of Great Stanney, 1030, with 24 of adjacent tidal water and 273 of foreshore; the population in 1891 was 89, of whom 15 were engaged in the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal. Acreage of Little Stanney, 831; population, 187.

The property of Great Stanney belonged to Stanlow Abbey, and that of Little Stanney belongs now to the Dean and Chapter of Chester.

Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

STANNEY, GREAT, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Great Boughton, Higher division of the hundred of Wirrall, S. division of the county of Chester, 6¾ miles (N.) from Chester; containing 53 inhabitants.

This liberty, which belonged to the adjacent abbey of Stanlow, comprises 947 acres of excellent arable and meadow land, in which is found marl of very good quality, composed of alluvial matter: large trees have been dug up in the meadows.

The ancient mansion here of the family of Bunbury, called Rake Hall, has been repaired by its present owner, Sir Henry Bunbury, Bart.; several farm-buildings have been erected, and the roads much improved. The Chester canal passes through the liberty.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848