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Norbury

NORBURY, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Stockport, hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester, 3½ miles (S. S. E.) from Stockport; containing 808 inhabitants, and comprising by admeasurement 1220 acres, chiefly a clayey soil. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £110; patron, Thomas Legh, Esq. The chapel, dedicated to St. Thomas, and in the later English style, with a tower, was erected in 1834, at an expense of £3025, raised by subscription, aided by grant from the Commissioners for building Churches.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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