Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MACCLESFIELD FOREST

MACCLESFIELD FOREST, a township-chapelry in Prestbury parish, Cheshire; on the backbone of England, contiguous to Derbyshire, 4 miles ESE of Macclesfield r. station. Post. town, Macclesfield. Acres, 4,000. Real property, £2,128. Pop., 242. Houses, 47. The property was formerly part of a royal forest, which included also the townships of Lyme-Handley, Hurdsfield, Kettleshulme, Rainow, Bollington, PottShrigley, Upton, Tytherington, Wincle, Sutton, Wildboarclough, and Bosley; but the property all belongs now to the Earl of Derby. The surface generally is mountainous, bleak, and sterile. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £120.* Patron, the Earl of Derby. The church was built in 1673, and rebuilt in 1834. There is a licensed preachingroom at the Clough.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Macclesfield Forest Tn/CP       Prestbury AP/CP       Cheshire AncC
Place: Macclesfield Forest

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