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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Calveley like this:
CALVELEY, a township in Bunbury parish, Cheshire; on the Chester canal, adjacent to the Chester and Crewe railway, 8 miles W by N of Crewe. It has a station on the railway; and it forms a curacy with Bunbury. Acres, 1,517. Real property, £2,502. Pop., 285. Houses, 48. The manor belonged to Sir Hugh Calveley, the "glory of Cheshire;" and belongs now to the Davenports.
Calveley 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 Calveley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Calveley, in Cheshire East and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3329
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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