Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LEIGHTON

LEIGHTON, a township in Nantwich parish, Cheshire; near the river Weaver, the Middlewich canal, the Northwestern railway, and the Crewe and Chester railway, 3 miles NNW of Crewe. Acres, 1,244. Real property, £2,306. Pop., 217. Houses, 40. Two old mansions here, now farm-houses, were the seats of the Del Brookes and the Erdswick families. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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

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