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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Clayton like this:
CLAYTON, a village in Droylsden township, Manchester parish, Lancashire; on the Manchester and Staleybridge railway, at Clayton-Bridge station, 3½ miles E of Manchester.
Clayton is now part of MANCHESTER District. Click here for graphs and data of how MANCHESTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Clayton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Clayton, in Manchester and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22745
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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