Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WHALEY-CUM-YEARDSLEY

WHALEY-CUM-YEARDSLEY, a township in Taxall parish, Cheshire; around Whaley-Bridge. Acres, 1,320. Real property, £3,952; of which £1,100 are in mines, £60 in quarries, and £20 in fisheries. Pop. in 1851, 693; in 1861, 1,052. Houses, 212. Yeardsley Hall was formerly the seat of the Jodrells, and is now a farmhouse. There is a Baptist 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: Taxal AP/CP       Cheshire AncC
Place: Yeardsley

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