Woodhead, Cheshire Family History Guide
Woodhead is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cheshire, created in 1724 from Mottram in Longendale Ancient Parish.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1782
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1816
Nonconformists include: Calvinistic Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WOODHEAD, a chapelry, with a r. station, in Mottram-in-Longendale parish, Cheshire; on the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 5 miles NE of Glossop. Post town. Tintwistle, under Manchester. Pop., 254. The property is all in one estate. Reservoirs of the Manchester water-works are here, with an aggregate area of 401 acres. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £102. Patron, J. Tollemache, Esq. The church is plain.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Cheshire, Woodhead – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Monumental inscriptions of St. James’ Church, Woodhead
Author: Day, Harry; North Cheshire Family History Society
Register of graves for Woodhead, Cheshire, 1877-1899
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Woodhead (Cheshire)
England, Cheshire, Woodhead – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Mottram-in-Longdendale, 1599-1892
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Mottram-in-Longdendale (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office
Bishop’s transcripts for Woodhead, 1816-1867
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Woodhead (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office
Parish registers of Woodhead, Cheshire, 1780-1992
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Woodhead (Cheshire); Cheshire Record Office
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Cheshire
- Civil Registration District: Ashton under Lyne
- 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: Macclesfield
- Poor Law Union: Ashton Under Lyne
- Hundred: Macclesfield
- Province: York