Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ALSAGER

ALSAGER, a chapelry in Barthomley parish, Cheshire; near the river Wenlock, the Grand Trunk canal, and the North Stafford railway, 4¼ miles SSE of Sandbach. It has a station on the railway, about a mile distant; and its Post Town is Lawton, under Stoke-on-Trent. Acres, 2,184. Real property, £4,202. Pop., 703. Houses, 139. Part of the land was a common, recently enclosed. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £100. Patrons, the proprietors of the manor. There is a Wesleyan chapel of 1869. Charities, £41.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Alsager CP/Tn       Barthomley AP/Tn/CP       Cheshire AncC
Place: Alsager

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