Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ashton-on-Mersey

Ashton-on-Mersey, par. and township with ry. sta., mid. Cheshire, 5 m. SW. of Manchester -- par., 3628 ac., pop. 9717; township, 1622 ac., pop. 3326; P.O., T.O.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and township with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cheshire AncC
Place: Ashton upon Mersey

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