Cheadle Bulkeley was a

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in the ancient parish of Cheadle, now in

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. It lay in the historic county of

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Geography

Cheadle Bulkeley covered part of the rural area that formed modern-day Cheadle and

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. The 1846 tithe map shows that Cheadle Bulkeley was intertwined with Cheadle Moseley township, an unusual situation in Cheshire. The 1870s Ordnance Survey map shows that the townships each had many detached portions, several enclosed within the other. (Cheadle Moseley had 8 detached portions, and Cheadle Bulkeley had 35 detached portions.) Together, the two townships were bordered to the west by Stockport Etchells, to the north by

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, to the east by

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and Stockport and to the south by

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History

Cheadle Bulkeley existed as a township from the

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until 1879, when it was merged with the township of Cheadle Moseley to form Cheadle Civil Parish. In 1894, Cheadle and Stockport Etchells Civil Parishes merged to form the

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, finally becoming part of the

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in 1974.

References

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