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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Whaley Bridge like this:
WHALEY-BRIDGE, a village in Whaley-cum-Yeardsley township, Cheshire; on the river Goyt, the Peak Forest canal, and the Manchester and Buxton railway, 9¼ miles SE of Stockport. It has a post-office‡ under Stockport, and a r. station.
Whaley Bridge is now part of HIGH PEAK District. Click here for graphs and data of how HIGH PEAK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Whaley Bridge itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Whaley Bridge, in High Peak and Derbyshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1253
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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