SMALLWOOD, a township-chapelry in Astbury parish, Cheshire; 3 miles ESE of Sandbach, and 3¾ NNW of Kidsgrove-Junction r. station. It has a post-office under Stoke-on-Trent. Acres, 2,133. Real property, £4,392. Pop., 590. Houses, 122. S. House and Moss End are chief residences. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £100.* Patron, the Rector of Astbury. The church was built in 1845, and is in the early English style. There is a national school.

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