MACCLESFIELD CANAL, a canal along the E of Cheshire; from the Peak Forest canal at Marple, sonthsouth-westward, past Bollington, Macclesfield, and Congleton, to the Grand Trunk canal at Lawton. It was formed in 1826; it is 29½ miles long; it rises 114 feet, with 13 locks; and it is now held, in perpetual lease, by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway company.

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