Place:


Hazel Grove  Cheshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hazel Grove like this:

HAZLEGROVE, a village and a sub-district in Stockport district, Cheshire. The village is in Stockport parish; stands adjacent to the Buxton railway, 2½ miles SE of Stockport; has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Stockport; is irregularly built, and nearly a mile long; and has a silk-mill, a cotton-mill, and Independent and Wesleyan chapels.—The sub-district contains three townships of Stockport parish, and a hamlet of Cheadle parish. Pop,, 4,917.

Hazel Grove through time

Hazel Grove is now part of Stockport district. Click here for graphs and data of how Stockport has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hazel Grove itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hazel Grove, in Stockport and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/802

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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