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HIGH LANE, a chapelry in the parishes of Prestbury and Stockport, Cheshire; near the North-western railway, 4½ miles S of Stockport. It was constituted in 1860; and it has a post office under Stockport. Pop., 1, 193. Houses, 225. Pop. of the Stockport portion, 1, 135. Houses, 215. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, not reported.* Patron, the Rector of Stockport. The church was opened in 1859, and is in the Norman style. There is a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Cheshire Ancient County |
| Place: | High Lane |
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