The Parkgate Society

books and other publications about Parkgate 

‘Twixt Mersey and Dee’ by Hilda Gamlin 1897

** ‘Parkgate as a Port’ by GW Place Cheshire Archaeological Society Journal Jan 1983

‘Neston and Parkgate’ by Jeffrey Pearson 1985

** ‘The Rise and Fall of Parkgate, Passenger Port for Ireland, 1686-1815’ by Geoffrey Place  (Chetham Society, 1994)

‘Neston 1840-1940’ by Burton & South Wirral Local History Society 1996

‘Neston and Parkgate Remembered’ by Jeffrey Pearson 1998

‘Neston at War 1939-1945’ by Burton & Neston History Society 1999

** ‘This is Parkgate’ by GW Place Parkgate Society (revised edition) 2008

‘Neston: Stone Age to Steam Age’ by Burton & Neston History Society 2014

** ‘Parkgate Heritage Trail’ by Alan Passmore Parkgate Society 2015

** ‘The Neston Collieries 1759-1855: An Industrial Revolution in Rural Cheshire’ by Anthony Annakin-Smith, University of Chester Press 2019

internet links to other web sites about Neston and Parkgate

Neston and Parkgate Archaeological Assessment (PDF)

Neston Local History

Neston Past

History of The Ship Hotel

Details of records held at the Cheshire Records Office

Parkgate Society Records, Accession number 06165, Class Record D 6165   Cheshire Record Office, Chester.

1. Millennium photographs of Parkgate, 2000

2. Millennium collection of information, leaflets, cuttings, sale particulars etc relating to societies, schools, institutions, houses, organisations etc, 2000

3. Domesday Survey I, photographic survey of buildings and events, 1985

4. Domesday Survey II, photographic survey, 1985; photographic negatives of Domesday Survey by Leonard Walker, 1985-1986

Note that we hope to scan these records and make them available on this website in the future.

Last Updated April 2022