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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bickley like this:
BICKLEY, a township in Malpas parish, Cheshire: near Cholmondeley Castle, 3 ¼. miles NE of Malpas. Acres, 2,096. Real property, £2,790. Pop., 397. Houses, 73. About a quarter of an acre of the surface, covered with trees, sank suddenly with a thundering noise, on 18 June 1657, into a deep subterranean flood, long since dried up, leaving a chasm, called the Barrel Fall. Two metal tablets, inscribed with a decree of the Emperor Trajan, were found in 1812, and conveyed to the British museum. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Bickley is now part of CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bickley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bickley, in Cheshire West and Chester and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1373
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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