MICKLEHURST, a village in Mottram parish, Cheshire; near the boundary. with Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1 mile E of Mossley r. station, and 3 NNE of Staleybridge. It occupies a pleasant situation among hills; is well built; has large cotton and woollen mills; and, in common with a tract around it, is governed, under the local government act, by a board of 18 comMissioners. Pop. in 1851,619; in 1861,800. Houses, 160. The increase of pop. arose from the prosperity of the cotton trade. Richmond House, T. Schofield, Esq.; Breeze Hill, S. Shaw, Esq.; Tudor Cottage, J. Lawton. Esq.; and Marle House, Mrs. J. Lawton, are adjacent; and remains of an ancient fortification, called Bucton Castle, are on an acclivity overlooking the village.

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