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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Morley like this:
MORLEY, a hamlet in Wilmslow parish, Cheshire; 2 miles NW of Wilmslow. It is a scattered place; contains many recent cottages and genteel houses; contains also gas-works, erected in 1865 for supplying all Wilmslow parish; and has chapels for Baptists, Quakers, and Wesleyans, and a boarding-school. Pownall Hall here was anciently a seat of the Pownall family, has been modernized, and is now the seat of T. Hobson, Esq. A tree comprising 1,000 cubic feet of timber, grew on Great Oak farm, and was felled in 11790.
Morley 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 Morley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Morley, in Cheshire East and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25792
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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