Taxall

"TAXALL, a parish in the hundred of Macclesfield, county Chester, 4 miles W. of Chapel-en-le-Street, and 8 N.E. of Macclesfield. The village is situated on the banks of the river Goyt, which separates it from Derbyshire. The Peak Forest canal passes through the township of Whaley-cum-Yeardsley, and is here met by the rail-road from Cromford. The surface is mountainous and partially barren, but well wooded. There are collieries, slate works, and quarries of good building and flagstone, chiefly in the township of Whalley. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Chester, value £312. The church, dedicated to St. James, is modern, with an old tower containing three bells. It has tombs of the Shallcrosses of Shallcross Hall. The church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1826. Erwood Hall is the principal residence. The parochial charities produce about £17 per annum. There is a National school for both sexes, at which a Sunday-school is also held. J. W. Jodrell, Esq., is lord of the manor."

"WHALEY WITH YEARDSLEY, a township in the parish of Taxall, hundred of Macclesfield, county Chester, 9 miles S.E. of Stockport. It is intersected by the Peak Forest canal. At Whaley Bridge is a station of the Manchester, Stockport, and Buxton branch of the London and North-Western railway."

"YEARDSLEY, a hamlet in the parish of Taxall, hundred of Macclesfield, county Chester, 10 miles S.E. of Stockport. It is situated on the W. bank of the river Goyt, on the road from Manchester to Buxton, and is joined with Whaley to form a township."