Cheadle, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Stockport district, Cheshire. The village stands near the river Mersey, 2 miles NW of the junction of the Macclesfield and Congleton railway with the Manchester and Crewe railway, and 2 ¼ WSW of Stockport. The parish includes also the townships of Cheadle-Bulkeley and Cheadle-Moseley, and the hamlet of Handforth-cum-Bosden; and has a station at the junction of the railways, and a post-office under Manchester. Acres, 6,275. Real property, £37,209. Pop., 10,852. Houses, 2,301. The property is much subdivided. Cheadle Wood and Cheadle Heath are chief residences. Many of the inhabitants are employed in cotton and silk mills. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value, £635. Patron, Sir H. D. Broughton, Bart. The church is later English. Handford chapel is a separate charge; and there is a chapel of ease at Cheadle-Hulme. There are also chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Roman Catholics. An Independent chapel, in the decorated English style, was built in 1861, at a cost of £2,000. The sub-district does not contain all the parish, and includes a township of Stockport. Pop., 4,941. Houses, 1,006.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
