A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
DUNHAM-MASSEY, a township and a chapelry in Bowdon parish, Cheshire. The township lies on an affluent of the river Mersey, on the Bridgewater canal, and on the Manchester, Lymm, and Runcorn-Gap railway, 2¼ miles WSW of Altrincham; includes the hamlets of Dunham-Town and Dunham-Woodhouse; and has a station on the railway. It was known at Domesday as Doneham; and it belonged anciently to the Masseys, who had a castle at it. Dunham Park is now the property of the Earl of Stamford; and includes a beautiful old seat, and a heronry. A number of villa residences have been built since the opening of the railway. Acres of the township, 3, 470. Real property, £14, 219. Pop., 1, 535. Houses, 287. The chapelry was constituted in 1855, and is more extensive than the township. Pop., 4, 569. Houses, 865. Post town, Altrincham, under Manchester The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £80. Patron, the Earl of Stamford. The church was built in 1864. There are chapels for. Independents and Baptists, and a free school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Bowdon CP/AP Dunham Massey CP/Tn Cheshire AncC |
| Place names: | DONEHAM | DUNHAM MASSEY |
| Place: | Dunham Massey |
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