Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STYAL

STYAL, a hamlet in Wilmslow parish, Cheshire; 5½ miles SSW of Stockport. It has a large cotton factory, a chapel of ease, and Wesleyan and Unitarian chapels.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wilmslow CP       Cheshire AncC
Place: Styal

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