High Legh St John Cheshire Family History Guide
High Legh St John an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1817 from a chapelry in Rostherne Ancient Parish, this separate ecclesiastical status was not sustained until 1973 when the parish was re-created.
High Legh St Mary Chapel opened in 1884 as a private chapel to High Legh Hall from 1973 it became a chapel to High Legh St John Ecclesiastical Parish.
Alternative names: Leigh High
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1815
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1819
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Adjacent Parishes
High Legh St John Parish Registers
Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.
Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
High Legh St John, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1815-1956
High Legh St Mary, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1884-1957
High Legh St John, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms – 1819-1902
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LEGH (HIGH), a village and a township-chapely in Rostherne parish, Cheshire. The village stands 3¼ miles S of Heatley and Warburton r. station, and 5 NW of Knutsford; is a scattered place; and has a post office under Knutsford. The chapelry comprises 4,257 acres. Real property, £8,359. Pop., 1,004. Houses, 175. The property is divided among three.
High Legh Hall is the seat of George Legh, Esq.; and West Hall is the seat of Major Eggerton Leigh. Much attention is given to the dairy. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £250. Patron, E. Leigh, Esq The church was built in 1815; superseded a previous edifice of 1404; and is a neat stone structure. A domestic chapel, erected in 1581, stands on the grounds of High Legh Hall. There are a national school, and charities £5.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Historical Maps
Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps
The full range of Cheshire maps produced by Alan Godfrey are available in the Cheshire Maps section of the Books & Maps area. There you can search by principal villages and parishes, by key features for town and city plans, and sort the maps by type and scale. Coverage is taken from the places listed in Alan Godfrey’s own map descriptions, although smaller parishes may not be explicitly named. View all the Cheshire & District Alan Godfrey Maps.
Administration
- County: Cheshire
- Civil Registration District: Altrincham
- 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: Frodsham
- Poor Law Union: Altrincham
- Hundred: Bucklow
- Province: York
