Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Leighton (or Leighton Chapel)

Leighton (or Leighton Chapel), township, Nantwich par., Cheshire, 3 miles NW. of Crewe, 1266 ac., pop. 172.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Leighton CP/Tn       Nantwich Ch/CP       Cheshire AncC
Place names: LEIGHTON     |     LEIGHTON CHAPEL     |     LEIGHTON OR LEIGHTON CHAPEL
Place: Leighton

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