A vision of Britain through time
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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.
MORLEY, a hamlet in Wilmslow parish, Cheshire; 2 miles NW of Wilmslow. It is a scattered place; contains many recent cottages and genteel houses; contains also gas-works, erected in 1865 for supplying all Wilmslow parish; and has chapels for Baptists, Quakers, and Wesleyans, and a boarding-school. Pownall Hall here was anciently a seat of the Pownall family, has been modernized, and is now the seat of T. Hobson, Esq. A tree comprising 1,000 cubic feet of timber, grew on Great Oak farm, and was felled in 11790.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Wilmslow CP Cheshire AncC |
| Place: | Morley |
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