Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SOUND

SOUND, a township in Wybunbury parish, Cheshire; 3½ miles SSW of Nantwich. Acres, 1,067. Real property, £1,603. Pop., 246. Houses, 54. It has a post-office, of the name of S. Heath, under Nantwich. The manor belongs to the Earl of Kilmorey. There are chapels for Primitive and U. Free Methodists.


(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: Wybunbury AP/CP       Cheshire AncC
Place names: SOUND     |     SOUND HEATH
Place: Sound

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