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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BRIDGNORTH	Shropshire	BRIDGNORTH , a town, two parishes, a subdistrict, a district, and a division in Salop. The town stands on the river	Imperial
  CHESHIRE	Cheshire	Chester, Altrincham, Congleton, Frodsham, Macclesfield, Malpas, Middlewich, Knutsford, Nantwich, Northwich, Sandbach, Stockport, and Tarporley. The chief seats are Cholmondeley Castle, Eaton-Hall, Dunham-Massey, Combermere Abbey, Crewe Hall, Tabley Hall, Vale-Royal Abbey, Poynton, Alderley, Hooten, High Beach, Oulton, Norton Priory, Doddington, Over-Peover, Arley Hall, Aston Hall, Booths Hall, Adlington, Bolesworth, Brereton, Bromborough, Bramhall, Henbury, Dukinfield, Capesthorne, Hyde, Hatherton, Lyme, Marbury, Netherlegh, Mollington, Marple, Poole, Tatton, Willington, Rode, Mere, Somerford, Toft, Withenshaw, Upton	Imperial
  CHESTER	Cheshire	Upton to St. Mary. on-the-Hill. Value of St. Bridget, £200; of St. Mary-on-the Hill, £400; * of Holy Trinity, £290; of St. John the Baptist, £300; of St. Oswald, £323; of Little St. John, £230; of St. Michael, £230; of Lache-with-Saltney, £72; * of St. Paul, £150; of Christ-Church, £300; of Bruera, £180. Patron of St. Bridget, St. Peter, St. Michael, Lache-with-Saltney, and Christ Church, the Bishop of Chester	Imperial
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	ELY , a city and several territorial tracts in Cambridgeshire; and a diocese in the counties of Cambridge, Bedford, Huntingdon, Norfolk	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	LICHFIELD , a city, four parishes, a sub-district, and a district in Staffordshire, and a diocese partly also in Derbyshire	Imperial
  MACCLESFIELD	Cheshire	Chester; got confirmation of its privileges from Edward III. and four subsequent monarchs; was invested with the parliamentary franchise by the act of 1832; and now sendS two members to parliament, is divided into six wards, and governed by a mayor, 12 aldermen, and 36 councillors. The old borough was conterminate with Macclesfield township; but the new borough, both municipally and parliamentarily, includes also parts of Sutton and Hurdsfield townships. Area, 5.4 square miles. Electors in 1833,718; in 1868,964. Corporation income in 1855, £7,529. Amount of property and income tax charged	Imperial
  MACCLESFIELD FOREST	Cheshire	Upton, Tytherington, Wincle, Sutton, Wildboarclough, and Bosley; but the property all belongs now to the Earl of Derby. The surface generally is mountainous, bleak, and sterile. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester	Imperial
  PRESTBURY	Cheshire	Upton, Tytherington, Hurdsfield, Bollington, Pott-Shrigley, Lyme-Handley, Kettleshulme, Rainow, Macclesfield, Macclesfield-Forest, Sutton, Wildboarclough, Wincle, Bosley, North Rode, Marton, Siddington, Henbury-with-Pexhall, Birtles, Capesthorne, Chelford, Lower Withington, and Old Withington; and is ecclesiastically cut into the sections of Prestbury, Macclesfield, M.-Christchurch, M., St. Paul, M., St. Peter, Macclesfield-Forest, Bollington, Bosley, Capesthorne, Chelford, Henbury, Hurdsfield, Marton, Poynton, Pott-Shrigley, Rainow, North Rode, Saltersford-cum-Kettleshulme, Siddington, Sutton, St. George, Sutton, St. James, Wincle, and Wood ford. Acres, 61, 901. Pop. in 1851, 58, 681; in 1861, 55, 680. Houses, 12, 315. The living of Prestbury	Imperial
  Upton	Cheshire	Upton , township, Chester St Mary on the Hill par., Cheshire, on N. side of Chester, 1154 ac., pop. 1112; P.O., called	Bartholomew
  UPTON	Cheshire	UPTON , a village and a parish in Wirrall district, Cheshire. The village stands 4 miles W of Birkenhead r. station; was once a market-town; and has a post-office under Birkenhead. The parish is sometimes called Over-church, and comprises 929 acres. Real property, £2,871. Pop., 293. Houses, 57. The manor belongs to W. Inman, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester	Imperial
  UPTON	Cheshire	UPTON , a township-chapelry in St. Mary-on-the-Hill parish, Cheshire; 2 miles N of Chester r. station. Post	Imperial
  Upton Park	Cheshire	Upton Park .-- in co. and 2 miles N. of Chester; P.O. See UPTON.	Bartholomew

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