Places: Wincle
Place Type
Township
County
Cheshire
Parish
Prestbury
Deanery
Macclesfield
Causes
EDC 5/1566/6 – John Legh, esquire, farmer of the tithes of the hamlets of Sutton and Wincle contra William Sutton and Ralph Gardner
WINCLE
The township of Wincle in Prestbury parish was situated on the River Dane on the border with Staffordshire.
A grange, or farm with outbuildings including a tithebarn, was constructed there on land granted to the abbey of Combermere and was held by the monastery until its dissolution in 1538. This is Wincle Grange, which was sold, with other property belonging to Combermere, to George Cotton following the dissolution of the abbey. It subsequently passed to the Leghs of Ridge.
There were other estates in the township, including Barleyford and White Lee.
The right to receive the great tithes of Wincle was the subject of a dispute in the consistory court in 1566.
Sources
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol3/pp150-156
J. P. Earwaker, East Cheshire Past and Present, vol. 2 (London, 1880), pp. 432-437, (images from this volume courtesy of HathiTrust).
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