Search Cheshire Land Tax Assessments, 1700-1908

The records include an image of the original land tax assessment and an individual transcript of the document. The details in each transcript can differ but usually will include:

• First name(s)
• Last name
• Year
• Residence
• Proprietor or occupier

The record’s image will give you additional details. Through the years the records differ slightly, but for most will include:

• Who owns the property
• Name of the occupier
• Amount of tax money collected for that year

The tax amount is listed in pre-decimal amounts of pounds, shillings and pence.

The Land Tax Assessments are important for those looking into their family history because they can give you a locality for your ancestors. It will also give you an understanding of their social standing as in whether or not your family were landowners.

Land Tax first started in England in 1692. The land tax assessments were administered by the Court of Quarter Sessions, these were local courts which were generally sat in the county’s town or seat. In Cheshire the county town is Chester. After 1780 the Land Tax Assessments were also used by the Clerks of the Peace as voter registration for parliamentary elections. For that reason most counties still have a large portion of their Land Tax records from 1780 until about 1832. The Land Tax was abolished in 1963.

While searching these records, keep in mind that not everyone within the town was recorded. Only those responsible for the property were listed. Often poorer sub-tenants or labourers were not listed on the assessments. In many of the Land Tax record images you will read at the top: ‘the rate of four shillings in the pound,’ which meant that for every pound (20s) earned in revenue on the land, the landowner was taxed four shillings. The records do not make clear whether the land being taxed includes shops, pastures, farmhouses, etc. This makes it difficult to compare taxes paid across towns or parishes.

Prior to decimalisation in 1971, British money was written as pounds, shillings and pence or £,s,d. In some records you will find it written as L,s,d from the original Latin: libra, solidus and denarius. In the Cheshire Land Tax Assessments you will find that all the money is pre-decimal. The value for each currency unit is: £1 equals 20s or 240d; 1s equals 12d.

The Cheshire Land Tax includes about 450 towns. To assist with your research we have included a full list of the towns and villages included within this record set.

Acton (Near Nantwich)

Acton-Grange

Adlington

Agden (Near Altrincham)

Agden (Near Whitchurch)

Alderley

Aldersey

Altrincham

Alvanley

Alvaston

Anderton

Appleton

Arclid

Arrow

Ashley

Ashton

Ashton-On-Mersey

Aston-By-Budworth

Aston-Grange

Aston-Juxta-Mondrum

Basford

Batherton

Bebington

Beeston

Betchton

Bexton

Bickerton

Birches

Birkenhead

Birtles

Blacon-Cum-Crabhall

Blakenhall

Bollin-Fee

Bollington (Near Altrincham)

Bollington (Near Macclesfield)

Bosley

Bostock

Bowdon

Bradley

Bradwall

Bramhall

Bredbury

Brereton-Cum-Smethwick

Bridge-Trafford

Bridgemere

Brimstage

Brindley

Brinnington

Bromborough

Broomhall

Broxton

Broxton Hundred

Bruen-Stapleford

Bruera

Bucklow Hundred

Buerton

Buglawton

Bulkeley

Bunbury

Burland

Burton

Burton-By-Tarvin

Burwardsley

Butley

Byley

Caldecott

Caldy

Calveley

Capenhurst

Capesthorne

Carden

Carrington

Castle-Northwich

Caughall

Cheadle-Bulkeley

Cheadle-Moseley

Checkley-Cum-Wrinehill

Chelford and Old Withington

Chester

Chidlow

Cholmondeley

Cholmondestone

Chorley (Near Macclesfield)

Chorley (Near Nantwich)

Chorlton (Near Malpas)

Chorlton (Near Nantwich)

Chorlton-By-Backford

Chowley

Christleton

Church Hulme

Church Minshull

Church-Lawton

Churton-By-Farndon

Claughton-Cum-Grange

Claverton

Clifton

Clive

Clotton-Hoofield

Clutton

Coddington

Cogshall

Comberbach

Congleton

Cool-Pilate

Coppenhall

Cotton

Cotton-Abbotts

Cotton-Edmunds

Cranage

Crewe (In Barthomley)

Crewe (Near Malpas)

Croughton

Crowton

Croxton

Cuddington (Near Malpas)

Cuddington (Near Northwich)

Daresbury

Darnhall

Davenham

Davenport

Disley

Dodcot-Cum-Wilkesley

Doddington

Doddleston

Duckington

Dudden

Dukinfield

Dunham-Massey

Dunham-On-The-Hill

Dutton

Eastham

Eaton (Near Chester)

Eaton (Near Congleton)

Eaton (Near Northwich)

Eaton (Near Tarporley)

Eccleston

Edge

Edgerley

Edleston

Egerton

Etchells

Fallybroom

Farndon

Foulk-Stapleford

Frankby

Frodsham

Gloverstone

Golbourn Bellow

Golbourn-David

Goostrey-Cum-Barnshaw

Grafton

Grange

Grappenhall

Greasby

Great Boughton

Great Budworth

Great Meols

Great Mollington

Great Neston

Great Saughall

Great Stanney

Great Sutton

Great Warford

Guilden-Sutton

Hale

Halton

Hampton

Handforth-With-Bosden

Handley

Hankelow

Hapsford

Hartford

Harthill

Haslington

Hassall

Hatherton

Hattersley

Hatton (Near Frodsham)

Hatton (Near Tarporley)

Haughton

Helsby

Henbury

Henhull

Heswall and Oldfield

High Legh

Hockenhull

Hollingworth

Hoole

Hoose

Hooton

Horton

Horton-Cum-Peel

Hough

Hulme Walfield

Hulse

Hunsterson

Huntington

Hurdsfield

Hurleston

Huxley

Hyde

Iddenshall

Ince

Inferior Peover

Irby

Kekewick

Kelsall

Kermincham

Kettleshulme

Kinderton-With-Hulme

Kingsley

Kingsmarsh

Knutsford

Lach-Dennis

Landican

Larkton

Latchford

Lea (Near Chester)

Lea (Near Nantwich)

Lea-Newbold

Ledsham

Leese

Leftwich

Leighton (Near Crewe)

Leighton (Near Great Neston)

Liscard

Little Budworth

Little Leigh

Little Meols

Little Mollington

Little Neston

Little Saughall

Little Stanney

Little Sutton

Littleton

Lostock-Gralam

Low Oulton

Lower Kinnerton

Lower Walton

Lower Withington

Lyme Handley

Lymm

Macclesfield

Macclesfield Forest

Macclesfield Hundred

MacEfen

Malpas

Manley

Marbury (Near Crewe)

Marbury (Near Northwich)

Marlston-Cum-Leach

Marple

Marston

Marthall

Marton (Near Congleton)

Marton (Near Northwich)

Matley

Mere

Mickle Trafford

Middlewich

Millington

Minshull Vernon

Mobberley

Moore

Mooresbarrow-With-Parme

Moreton

Moreton-Cum-Alcumlow

Moston

Mottram-In-Longdendale

Mottram-St. Andrew

Mouldsworth

Moulton

Nantwich

Ness

Nether Peover

Nether Pool

Nether Tabley

Newbold-Astbury

Newhall (Near Nantwich)

Newhall (Near Northwich)

Newton (Near Ashton-Under-Lyne)

Newton (Near Macclesfield)

Newton (Near Middlewich)

Newton-By-Chester

Newton-By-Daresbury

Newton-By-Frodsham

Newton-By-Tattenhall

Newton-Cum-Larton

Newton-Juxta-Malpas

Noctorum

Norbury (Near Nantwich)

Norbury (Near Stockport)

Norley

North Rode

Northen

Northwich

Norton

Occleston

Odd Rode

Offerton

Old Withington

Oldcastle

Ollerton

Onston

Over

Over Pool

Over Tabley

Overton

Oxton

Partington

Peckforton

Pensby

Pickmere

Pickton

Plumbley

Poole

Pott-Shrigley

Poulton

Poulton-Cum-Seacombe

Poulton-Cum-Spittle

Pownall-Fee

Poynton

Prenton

Prestbury

Preston-On-The-Hill

Puddington

Pulford

Raby

Radnor

Rainow

Ravenscroft

Ridley

Romiley

Rope

Rostherne

Rowton

Rudheath

Runcorn

Rushton

Saighton

Sale

Sandbach

Saughall-Massey

Shavington-Cum-Gresty

Shipbrook

Shocklach

Shotwick

Shotwick Park

Shurlach

Siddington

Smallwood

Snelson

Somerford

Somerford Booths

Sound

Sproston

Spurstow

Staley

Stanlow

Stanthorne

Stapeley

Stockham

Stockport

Stockton

Stoke (Near Chester)

Stoke (Near Nantwich)

Storeton

Stretton (Near Malpas)

Stretton (Near Warrington)

Stublach

Superior Peover

Sutton (Near Frodsham)

Sutton (Near Macclesfield)

Sutton (Near Middlewich)

Swettenham

Tarporley

Tarvin

Tattenhall

Tatton

Taxall

Tetton

Thelwall

Thingwell

Thornton-Childer

Thornton-Hough

Thornton-Le-Moors

Thurstaston

Tilston

Tilstone Fearnall

Timperley

Tintwistle

Tittenley

Tiverton

Toft

Torkington

Tranmere

Tushingham-Cum-Grindley

Twemlow

Tytherington

Upton (Near Birkenhead)

Upton (Near Chester)

Upton (Near Macclesfield)

Utkinton

Walgherton

Wallasey

Wallerscote

Walton Superior

Warburton

Wardle

Warmingham

Waverton

Weaver

Weaverham

Werneth

Wervin

West Kirby

Weston (Near Crewe)

Weston (Near Runcorn)

Wettenhall

Whaley-Cum-Yeardsley

Wharton

Whatcroft

Wheelock

Whitby

Whitley-Inferior

Whitley-Superior, Antrobus, Sevenoaks, and Crowley

Wichaugh

Wigland

Wildboarclough

Willaston (Near Great Neston)

Willaston (Near Nantwich)

Willington

Wimbolds Trafford

Wimboldsley

Wincham

Wincle

Winnington

Wirral Hundred

Wirswall

Wistaston

Witton-Cum-Twambrooks

Woodbank

Woodchurch

Woodcott

Woodford

Woolstanwood

Worleston

Worth

Wrenbury

Wybunbury