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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bollington like this:
BOLLINGTON, a township in Bowden and Rostherne parishes,-Cheshire; on the Bridgewater canal, near the river Bollin, 3 miles SW of Altrincham. It has a post office under Manchester. Acres, 631. Real property, £1,827. Pop., 277. Houses, 52. It forms a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Rostherne. The church was built in 1854; and a national school, in 1857.
Bollington 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 Bollington itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bollington, in Cheshire East and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3545
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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