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WOODHEAD, a chapelry, with a r. station, in Mottram-in-Longendale parish, Cheshire; on the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 5 miles NE of Glossop. Post town. Tintwistle, under Manchester. Pop., 254. The property is all in one estate. Reservoirs of the Manchester water-works are here, with an aggregate area of 401 acres. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £102. Patron, J. Tollemache, Esq. The church is plain.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry, with a r station" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Cheshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Woodhead |
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