Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HAZLEGROVE

HAZLEGROVE, a village and a sub-district in Stockport district, Cheshire. The village is in Stockport parish; stands adjacent to the Buxton railway, 2½ miles SE of Stockport; has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Stockport; is irregularly built, and nearly a mile long; and has a silk-mill, a cotton-mill, and Independent and Wesleyan chapels.—The sub-district contains three townships of Stockport parish, and a hamlet of Cheadle parish. Pop,, 4,917.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hazel Grove Registration Sub-District       Stockport Poor Law Union/Registration District       Cheshire Ancient County
Place: Hazel Grove

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