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Bollington (Prestbury), Cheshire

Historical Description

Bollington, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Prestbury parish, Cheshire. The township lies near the river Bollin and the Macclesfield Canal, 3 miles N by E of Macclesfield, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 1291; population, 5335. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in quarries, collieries, and silk and cotton factories. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1842. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Prestbury. The church was built in 1834, at a cost of £4000, and is in the Early English style. There are Roman Catholic, Congregational, Wesleyan, Primitive and New Connexion Methodist chapels.

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

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyCheshire 
Civil parishPrestbury 
HundredMacclesfield 
Poor Law unionMacclesfield 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bollington (Prestbury) from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Bollington (Prestbury) 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.

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