A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HANDFORTH-WITH-BOSDEN, a township in Cheadle parish, Cheshire; on the Manchester and Birmingham railway, 5 miles SW by S of Stockport. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Manchester, both of the name of Handforth. Acres, 1, 781. Real property, £7, 966. Pop. of H. alone, 629; of B. alone, 1, 779. Houses, 117 and 377. Handforth Hall is now a farm house. Calico printing is extensively carried on. Mining also is carried on, but has decreased. There are a chapel of ease, and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Cheadle CP Cheshire AncC |
| Place: | Handforth |
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