Delamere Forest
Parish in the County of Cheshire
Etymology
This parish was created in 1812 by Act of Parliament out of the last remaining part of the royal Forest of Delamere 18, as 'a parish to be known as Delamere Forest', v. Sheaf3 33 (7466), Orm2 ii112. The parish contained the townships, 1. Delamere (now a c.p. including Eddisbury infra ), 2. Eddisbury (v. Delamere supra ), 3. Kingswood (now included in Kingsley and Manley c.ps. 239, 245 infra ), 4. Oakmere. These townships appear first in the EnclA of 17 December 1819, 'we have divided the parish of Delamere into the Townships of Kingswood, Eddisbury, Delamere and Oakmere'.
Major Settlements
Other places in this Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Abbey Arms Wood
- Birch Hill
- Blackbank Wood
- Boothdale
- Castlehill, Castle Yard
- Church Allotment
- Colonel's Hatch
- Delamere Fm
- Dicks Mount
- Dog Fall
- Dogmoor Well
- Dungeon Bank
- Fishpool Inn
- Forest Ho
- Foxhill Fm
- Gooseberry Lane
- Gorselands
- Green Lane
- Harrow Hill
- Heathfield
- Hindswell Gutter
- Hollybank
- Kelsborrow Castle
- Kelsborrow Ho
- Kenmure King's Gate
- Organsdale Fm
- Primrose Bank
- Primrose Hill, Primrose Hill Cottage & Primrose Hill Wood
- Quarry Lane
- Rosebank Fm
- Sandybrow
- Sandy Mere
- Sandymere Wood
- Seven Lows
- Summer Bank
- Summertrees
- Tirley Hollow
- Urchins Kitchen
- The Waste, Waste Lane
- Whistlebitch Well
- Willington Corner & Willington Lane
- Woodbine Lodge
- Barnbridge Gates
- Battleaxe Rd
- Black Lake
- Blakemere Moss
- Castle Ditch
- Eddisbury Hill Fm
- Forest Fm
- Government Cottages
- Grey's Gate
- Hangingstone Hill
- Hollybank
- Hunger Hill
- King's Chair
- Lea Croft
- Linmere Moss, Linmer Cottage
- Merrick's Hill
- Mount Pleasant
- Nettleford Wood
- The Old Pale, Old Pale
- Organsdale Ho
- Pale Heights
- Spy Hill
- Stoney Lane
- Willow Wood
- The Yeld, The Yeld Fm, Yeld Croft
- Barnbridge Gates
- Birchdale Fm
- Birch Hill, Birch Hill Fm & Birch Hill Ho
- Black Wood
- Castle Cob
- Castlehill Cottage
- Claim Fm
- Cliff View
- Forestgate
- Hondslough Fm
- Lord's Well
- Maiden's Cross
- New Pale, New Pale Fm
- Pugh's Cottages
- Ravenslodge Fm
- Sunnybank Fm
- Swan's Well
- Wanlow's Well
- Waste Fm
- Waterloo, Waterloo Gate
- Abbotsmoss Cottage
- Forest Ho
- Gallowsclough Fm, Gallowsclough Hill & Gallowsclough Lane
- Headless Cross
- Hogshead Lane & Hogshead Wood
- Hook Ho
- Lob Slack, Lob Slack Wood
- Massey's Lodge
- Plague Hole
- Plover's Moss
- Ravensclough
- Relicks Moss
- Sandybrow Cottage
- Thieves Moss
- Watling Street'
- Long Ridge
- Newpool Fm & Newpool Wood
- Barry's Wood, Blakemere
- Bowyers Waste
- Burnt Wood
- Corner Fm
- Crabtreegreen Fm
- Cuddington Pool
- Firbrook
- Folly Fm
- Fox Covert Lodge
- Gallowsclough Cob
- Gig Hole
- Hall Wood
- Hart Hill, Hart Hill Bank & Hart Hill Hatch
- Hornby's Rough
- Maddock Lodge
- Overdale