A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Macclesfield. You may be able to find further references to Macclesfield in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Macclesfield | hundred | Bartholomew | MACCLESFIELD | a town, a township, four chapelries, two sub-districts, a district, and a hundre | Imperial | MACCLESFIELD, BOLLINGTON, and MARPLE RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Macclesfield.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Macclesfield Forest | township | Bartholomew | MACCLESFIELD FOREST | a township-chapelry | Imperial |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Macclesfield within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
| Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | William Adams | On Tramp | 4 | William Camden | Shropshire and Cheshire | 2 | William Adams | Tramp Life | 1 | John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 1 | John Wesley | 1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Wybunbury to Darlaston | 1 | Thomas Pennant | June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Appendix VIII: Itinerary | 1 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
| Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
|---|---|---|
| Prestbury | 0 | 2 |
| Upton | 0 | 2 |
| Tytherington | 0 | 2 |
| Hurdsfield | 0 | 2 |
| Fallibroome | 0 | 2 |
| Henbury | 0 | 2 |
| Bollington | 0 | 2 |
| Sutton | 0 | 2 |
| Gawsworth | 0 | 2 |
| Birtles | 0 | 2 |
| Over Alderley | 0 | 1 |
| Butley | 0 | 2 |
| Rainow | 0 | 2 |
| Mottram St Andrew | 0 | 2 |
| Macclesfield Forest | 0 | 2 |
| Adlington | 0 | 2 |
| Siddington | 0 | 2 |
| Pott Shrigley | 0 | 2 |
| Capesthorne | 0 | 2 |
| North Rode | 0 | 3 |
