A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
SHAVINGTON-CUM-GRESTY, a township, with a village of S. and a hamlet of G., in Wybunbury parish, Cheshire; near the Grand Junction railway, 3½ miles E of Nantwich. Acres, 1, 132. Real property, £2, 592. Pop. in 1851, 453; in 1861, 629. Houses, 137. The increase of pop. arose from the erection of dwelling-houses in connexion with the Crewe railway works. The manor belongs to Sir H. D. Broughton, Bart. S. Hallwas the seat of the Woodnoths, and the birth-place of the antiquary John Woodnoth; and is now a farm-house. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and U. Free Methodist chapels.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Cheshire AncC |
| Place: | Shavington |
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