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STALEY, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Mottram-in-Longdendale parish, Cheshire. The township lies on the Manchester and Huddersfield canal, and on the river Tame, at the boundary with Lancashire, near Staleybridge r. station; includes part of Staleybridge borough; extends thence 2½ miles to the NE; and contains the village of Millbrook, which has a postal letter box under Staleybridge. Acres, 2,760. Real property, £32,748; of which £70 are in quarries, and £761 in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 4,579; in 1861, 6,187. Houses, 1,218. There are large cotton-mills; and the increase of pop. arose from the prosperity of the cotton trade. The manor belonged anciently to the Staveleighs; took from them its name of Staley; and belongs now to the Earl of Stamford. S. Hall was formerly the manorial residence; and is now a farmhouse. -The chapelry was constituted in 1840; is sometimes called Staleybridge-St. Paul; was divided into two in 1864, with the centre of the new section at Millbrook; and is more extensive than the township. Pop. in 1861,6,919. Houses, 1,364. The two livings are p. curacies in the diocese of Chester. Value of St. Paul, £250;* of Millbrook, £111.* Patrons, Trustees. St. Paul's church is in Staleybridge; was built in 1839, at a cost of £4,000; and is in the early English style. Millbrook church was built in 1864; and also is in the early English style, with tower and spire.—The sub-district comprises Staley and Matley townships, and Micklehurst hamlet; and is in Ashton-under-Lyne district. Pop. in 1851, 5,450; in 1861, 7,218. Houses, 1,424.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Cheshire AncC |
| Place names: | STALEY | STALEYBRIDGE ST PAUL |
| Place: | Stayley |
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