Discover your ancestors through the Cheshire Land Tax Assessments. Search through over two million records by your ancestor’s name or town. Almost 450 towns are included in the land tax assessments. Further your family history search by exploring our range of Cheshire records. The majority of the records cover the years 1786-1832, but there are some earlier records dating as far back as 1700 and some more recent records dating to 1908 included.
Discover your ancestors through the Cheshire Land Tax Assessments. Search through over two million records by your ancestor’s name or town. Almost 450 towns are included in the land tax assessments. Further your family history search by exploring our range of Cheshire records. The majority of the records cover the years 1786-1832, but there are some earlier records dating as far back as 1700 and some more recent records dating to 1908 included.
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:
The record’s image will give you additional details. Through the years the records differ slightly, but for most will include:
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 tax 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