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Alderley Edge, Cheshire

Historical Description

Chorley or Alderley Edge, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Cheshire, 5½ miles NW of Macclesfield. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office, of the name of Alderley Edge, under Manchester, and a station of the same name on the Manchester and Crewe branch of the L. & N.W.R. Acreage, 1338; population, 2141. The township is governed by a local board of nine members. There is a public hall and a working men's club, a temperance and mission hall, and a bank. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £340 with residence. The church is recent. The ecclesiastical parish of St John the Evangelist was formed in 1877, and is partly also in the townships of Fulshaw and Pownall Fee. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Alderley Edge are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cheshire papers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.

CountyCheshire East
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtSK9

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