HANDFORTH-WITH-BOSDEN, a township in Cheadle parish, Cheshire; on the Manchester and Birmingham railway, 5 miles SW by S of Stockport. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Manchester, both of the name of Handforth. Acres, 1, 781. Real property, £7, 966. Pop. of H. alone, 629; of B. alone, 1, 779. Houses, 117 and 377. Handforth Hall is now a farm house. Calico printing is extensively carried on. Mining also is carried on, but has decreased. There are a chapel of ease, and a national school.

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