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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BUCKFASTLEIGH	Devon	forest, 2¼ miles SW by S of Ashburton; and is on the line of a railway from the South Devon to Ashburton, near completion in 1869. It dates from old times; was formerly a market town; carries on blanket and serge manufactures, in mills employing about 400 hands; and has a post office‡ under Newton-Abbot, a chief inn, and fairs on the third Thursday of June and the second Thursday of Sept. The parish comprises 5,928 acres. Real property, with Holne, £11,184. Pop., 2,544. Houses, 522. The property is much subdivided. The manor	Imperial
  CHESHIRE	Cheshire	Macclesfield, Congleton, Sandbach, Knutsford, and Tarporley. Railways intersect the county in all parts, in all directions; the Bridge-water, the Grand Trunk, the Ellesmere, the Chester and Nantwich, and the Macclesfield and Peak Forest	Imperial
  CHESTER	Cheshire	Macclesfield contains the rectories of Alderley, Cheadle, Gawsworth, Mobberley, Northenden, Stockport, Taxall, and Wilmslow; the vicarages of Mottram-in-Longdendale and Prestbury; and the p. curacies of Birtles, Handforth, Newton-St. Mary, Godley-cum-Newton-Green, Stayleybridge, Tintwistle, Woodhead, Bollington, Bosley, Capesthorne, Chelford, Henbury, Hurdsfield, Macclesfield-Christchurch, Macclesfield-St. Paul, Macclesfield-St. Peter, Macclesfield-Forest	Imperial
  Dane	Cheshire	Dane , river, Cheshire; rises in Macclesfield Forest, and flows 13 miles to the Weaver at Northwich.	Bartholomew
  DANE (The)	Cheshire	Macclesfield forest, near the Three-Shire-Mere; runs 4 miles southward, to the boundary with Stafford; then goes 3½ miles	Imperial
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Glasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of	Groome
  LONDON	London London	LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  LYME-HANDLEY	Cheshire	Forest canal and the Buxton railway, 7 miles NNE of Macclesfield. Acres, 3,920. Real property, £3,145; of which	Imperial
  Macclesfield	Cheshire	Macclesfield .-- mun. bor., market town, and township, Prestbury par., Cheshire, on river Bollin and adjacent to the Macclesfield Canal, 17 miles S. of Manchester and 165 miles NW. of London by rail - township, 2580 ac., pop. 28,619; bor., 3215 ac., pop. 37,514; 3 Banks, 3 newspapers. Market-days, Tuesday and Saturday . Macclesfield has an agreeable position on an eminence in proximity to the district known as Macclesfield Forest	Bartholomew
  MACCLESFIELD	Cheshire	MACCLESFIELD , a town, a township, four chapelries, two sub-districts, a district, and a hundred, in Cheshire. The town stands on the declivity and skirts of a hill, on the river Bollin, on the Manchester and Macclesfield railway, at the junction of the Macclesfield and Marple railway, adjacent to the Macclesfield canal, near Macclesfield forest	Imperial
  Macclesfield Canal	Cheshire	Macclesfield Canal (1826), Cheshire; extends from the Peak Forest Canal at Marple SW. past Macclesfield to the Grand Trunk Canal	Bartholomew
  MACCLESFIELD CANAL	Cheshire	MACCLESFIELD CANAL , a canal along the E of Cheshire; from the Peak Forest canal at Marple, sonthsouth-westward, past Bollington	Imperial
  Macclesfield Forest	Cheshire	Macclesfield Forest , township, Prestbury par., Cheshire, 4 miles E. of Macclesfield, 3499 ac., pop. 207.	Bartholomew
  MACCLESFIELD FOREST	Cheshire	MACCLESFIELD FOREST , a township-chapelry in Prestbury parish, Cheshire; on the backbone of England, contiguous to Derbyshire, 4 miles ESE of Macclesfield	Imperial
  MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY	Derbyshire Lancashire Lincolnshire	Forest, the Macclesfield, and the Ashton and Oldham canals; comprises, under lease of 999 years, the South Yorkshire railway; and has connoxious	Imperial
  Marple	Cheshire	Forest and Macclesfield Canal, on border of co., 4 miles ESE. of Stockport and 9 miles SE. of Manchester by rail	Bartholomew
  MARPLE	Cheshire	Forest and Macclesfield canal, and on the Manchester, Hyde, and New Mills railway, near the river Goyt at the boundary	Imperial
  PRESTBURY	Cheshire	Macclesfield railway, 2¼ miles N N W of Macclesfield; is a neat place; and has a station on the railway, a post-office‡ under Macclesfield, and fairs on 28 April and 22 Oct. The township comprises 620 acres. Real property, £2,017. Pop., 358. Houses, 76. The manor belongs to R. B. Legh, Esq. P. Hall is the residence of R. Andrew, Esq. The parish contains also the townships of Worth, Poynton, Wood ford, Newton, Adlington, Butley, Mottram, St. Andrew, Fallybroom, Upton, Tytherington, Hurdsfield, Bollington, Pott-Shrigley, Lyme-Handley, Kettleshulme, Rainow, Macclesfield, Macclesfield-Forest	Imperial

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