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Bredbury, Cheshire

Historical Description

Bredbury, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Stockport parish, Cheshire, adjacent to the Peak Forest Canal, 2¼ miles ENE of Stockport, with a station on the M.S. & L.R., and another at Woodley, a hamlet in this township, at the junction of the same railway with the Cheshire lines. There is a post office at Woodley, under Stockport. The township includes the hamlets of Hatherlow and Woodley. Acreage, 2536; population, 3901. It is governed, together with Romiley, by a local board of 18 members, and contains collieries, brickfields, chemical works, wool-carding works, and two hat manufactories. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1846. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £313 with residence. The church is good, and there are Congregational and Primitive 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 parishStockport 
HundredMacclesfield 
Poor Law unionStockport 

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


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bredbury from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Bredbury 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.

DistrictStockport
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtSK6
Post TownStockport

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