Taxal and Fernilee (Whaley Bridge) Derbyshire Family History Guide
Taxal and Fernilee an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire created in 1966 by the union of Taxal with Kettleshulme Ecclesiastical Parish and Fernilee Ecclesiastical Parish and the part of Chapel en le Frith Ancient Parish that comprised the chapel of Whaley Bridge Christ Church. In 1985 the parish was renamed Whaley Bridge.
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Taxal and Fernilee 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.
Whaley Bridge Christ Church, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1905-1973
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Taxal (Whaley Bridge) St James, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1951
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Taxal (Whaley Bridge) St James, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1813-1956
Historical Maps
British National Grid Ref: SK 01303 81185
BNG Eastings, Northings: 401303, 381185
Latitude, Longitude: 53.327577, -1.981905
View detailed 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps from the National Library of Scotland Maps – includes OS 25 inch 1892-1918 maps, a vast range of other historical OS maps and land use maps. These maps reveal old street layouts, parish boundaries, and landmarks long since vanished.
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.
Sources
The following sources have been used to compile this article.
- F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991)
- FamilySearch Research Wiki – Cheshire, England Genealogy
- Cheshire Archives and Local Studies Catalogue
- Ancestry.co.uk
County Maps
The Godfrey Edition reprints of Old Ordnance Survey Maps are invaluable for historians and genealogists. Many are taken from the highly detailed 1:2500 plans, reprinted at about 14 inches to the mile, showing individual houses, railways, factories, churches, mills, canals. Each map includes historical notes on the area. Alongside these large‑scale sheets, Alan Godfrey also publishes the smaller‑scale Inch‑to‑the‑Mile series, and a range of maps based on the OS five‑foot plans.
