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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"WILMSLOW, a parish in the hundred of Macclesfield, county Chester, 7 miles N.W. of Macclesfield, and 6 from Stockport. It is a station on the Manchester, Stockport, and Crewe section of the London and North-Western railway. The village is situated in the vale of the river Bollin, here crossed by a railway viaduct of eleven arches. The parish comprises the townships of Bollin Fee, Pownall Fee, Fulshaw, and Chorley. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the cotton and silk mills. The surface is undulating, and the soil fertile, with a considerable proportion of rich pasture. The soil is red and grey marl. The road from Manchester to Birmingham passes through the parish. The manor was anciently held under the Earls of Chester by the Fittors, of Pownall, from whom it passed by marriage to the Venables, of Kinderton, and from them to the Booths, of Dunham Massey; it now belongs to Sir Humphrey de Trafford and John Clarke Prescott, Esq., who are the chief landowners. A court baron is held by the Traffords in Pownall Fee, and another by the Earl of Stamford and Warrington. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Chester, value £1,000. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, contains a carved oak roof and several mortuary chapels, with brasses, effigies, and altar tombs. The Independents, Wesleyans, Calvinistic Methodists, Unitarians, and Society of Friends have chapels. There are National and Sunday schools. Races are held annually in September."

"BOLLING FEE, a township in the parish of Wilmslow, and hundred of Macclesfield, in the county palatine of Chester, 6 miles to the N.W. of Macclesfield. It is pleasantly situated on the banks of the small river Bollin, a feeder of the Mersey, into which it falls near Warburton, after a course of about 20 miles. It takes its rise in the hills near Macclesfield. The Wilmslow station, on the London and North-Western railway, is in this township Many of the workpeople are employed in the cotton manufacture."

"CHORLEY, a township and village in the parish of Wilmslow, in the hundred of Macclesfield, in the county of Chester. It is a station on the Manchester and Birmingham railway, and is about 13 miles by rail from the former place, 6 N.W. of Macclesfield, and 8 from Stockport. The village, which is not large, is one of the most fashionable suburbs of Manchester, and contains many fine mansions. The living is a perpetual curacy in the dioc, of Chester, in the patronage of Sir T. J. Trafford, Bart. The church, a new and beautiful stone edifice, is dedicated to St. Philip. The Methodists of the New Connexion have a chapel, and there is a parochial school for both sexes."

"DEAN ROW, a hamlet in the parish of Wilmslow, hundred of Macclesfield, in the county of Chester, 6 miles N.N.W. of Macclesfield. The Unitarians have a place of worship here."

"FULSHAW, a township in the parish of Wilmslow, hundred of Macclesfield, county palatine Chester, 7 miles S.E. of Altrincham. The river Bollin and the Grand Junction railway pass through this neighbourhood."

"POWNALL-FEE, a township in the parish of Wilmslow, hundred of Macclesfield, county Chester, 3½ miles S. by W. of Stockport, and 7 N.W. of Macclesfield. The village, which is considerable, is situated near the Manchester railway, and on the river Bollin."