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"PECKFORTON, a township in that part of the parish of BUNBURY which is in the first division of the hundred of EDDISBURY, county palatine of CHESTER, 4½ miles (S. S.W.) from Tarporley, containing 294 inhabitants. Horseley bath, a mineral spring formerly in considerable esteem, is in this township. A school is supported by small annual subscriptions." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Peckforton was a township in Bunbury ancient parish, Eddisbury hundred (SJ 5456), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- The population was 260 in 1801, 286 in 1851, 176 in 1901, 140 in 1951, and 116 in 2001.
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