Macclesfield-Forest
MACCLESFIELD-FOREST, a township and chapelry, in the parish of Prestbury, union and hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Macclesfield; containing 256 inhabitants. The township comprises 2152 acres, light land, and mossy in some parts. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £60; patron, the Earl of Derby.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.