Checkley in 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"CHECKLEY, a parish in the south division of the hundred of Totmonslow, in the county of Stafford, 3½ miles from Macclesfield, 53 from Manchester, and 1½ N.E. of Leigh station, on the Crewe, Stoke, and Uttoxeter branch of the North Staffordshire line. It is situated on the river Tean, and includes the townships of Madeley-Holme, Nether Tean, and Upper Tean.

The living is a rectory annexed to the curacy of Hollington, value together, £576, in the patronage of Edward Philips, Esq. The church of St. Mary and All Saints, is an ancient and handsome building of the Gothic style of architecture, possessing a tower and stained-glass windows. Three stones in the shape of pyramids are to be seen in the churchyard, inscribed with rude figures, which Gough conjectures to be Danish funeral monuments, but which tradition asserts to have been erected to the memory of as many bishops who were killed in an engagement between the Danes and Saxons.

The charities produce about £194, chiefly the interest of £4,000 left by John Philips, in 1810, for the benefit of the poor. The lord of the manor is the Rev. William Hutchinson."

An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Checkley is to be found on a supplementary page.

• Beamhurst
• Deadmans Green
• Fole
• Hollington
• Madeley Holme
• Upper Tean

 

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]