In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cross Town like this:

CROSS TOWN, a chapelry in Knutsford parish, Cheshire. It was constituted in 1860. Post town, Knutsford. Pop., 784. Houses, 170. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £60.* Patron, P. Legh, Esq. The church is good.

Cross Town through time

Cross Town is now part of CHESHIRE EAST Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CHESHIRE EAST has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cross Town itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cross Town, in Cheshire East and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25762

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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