In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Occlestone like this:
OCCLESTONE, a township, with a scattered village, in Middlewich parish, Cheshire; on the river Wheelock, near the Middlewich canal and the Grand Junction railway, 1¾ mile S S W of Middlewich. Acres, 721. Real property, £1, 231. Pop., 110. Houses, 18. The manorbelonged, from before the time of King John till after the time of Henry V., to the family of Occlestone; passed to successively the Bunburys, the Moretons, the Daven-ports, the Whitmores, and the Vernons; and belongs now to E. Vernon, Esq. The manor-house is a neat brick edifice, and is now used as a farm-house.
Occlestone through time
Occlestone is now part of Vale Royal district. Click here for graphs and data of how Vale Royal has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Occlestone itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Occlestone, in Vale Royal and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22563
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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