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"BOSLEY, a chapelry in the parish of PRESTBURY, hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of CHESTER, 4¾ miles (E. N. E.) from Congleton, containing 546 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and £1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Prestbury." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Bosley was a township in Prestbury ancient parish, Macclesfield hundred (SJ 9266), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- It includes the hamlets of Higher Works, Key Green, Kiln Hill, Lower Works, Minn End, Mountpleasant, Primrosebank and Smithy Green.
- The population was 417 in 1801, 568 in 1851, 353 in 1901, 421 in 1951, and 406 in 2001.
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- Prestbury: St. Peter (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Bosley.
- Bosley: St. Mary the Virgin (Church of England). An ancient chapel to Prestbury, St. Peter, which became the district church for Bosley in 1883.
- Bosley, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Founded in 1832. Memorial inscriptions have been published by the FHS of Cheshire (1995).
- Macclesfield (1837-98)
- Cheshire East (1998-2007)
- Cheshire (2007-09)
- Cheshire East (2009+)
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bosley to another place.
- 1936 April 1 — Lost part to Congleton (1 acre, pop. 0 in 1931)
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ918655 (Lat/Lon: 53.186529, -2.124169), Bosley which are provided by:
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- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Macclesfield Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Macclesfield Rural District (1894-1974)
- Macclesfield (1974-2009)
- Cheshire East (2009+)