In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Basford like this:
BASFORD, a township in Wybunbury parish, Cheshire; on the Northwestern railway, 2½ miles SSE of Crewe. It has a station on the railway. Acres, 642. Real property, £829. Pop., 60. Houses, 12.
Basford through time
A Vision of Britain through Time includes a large library of local statistics for administrative units. For the best overall sense of how the area containing Basford has changed, please see our redistricted information for the modern district of Crewe and Nantwich. More detailed statistical data are available under Units and statistics, which includes both administrative units covering Basford and units named after it.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Basford, in Crewe and Nantwich and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4496
Date accessed: 19th May 2013
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