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Altrincham in Cheshire County England History and GeographyALTRINCHAM, a market town and chapelry in the parish of BOWDON, hundred of BUCKLOW, county palatine of CHESTER, 7 miles (N. by E.) from Nether Knutsford, and 179½ (N. W. by N.) from London, containing 2302 inhabitants. The town is situated on Bowdon Downs, and, though small, contains several respectable dwelling houses: the salubrity of the air rendering it a place of general resort for invalids from Manchester: it is watched and lighted by subscription, and characterized throughout by cleanliness and neatness. The principal trade consists in the spinning of yarn, the making of bobbins for cotton and worsted spinners, and in the weaving of cotton by hand-looms for the manufacturers at Manchester and other adjacent towns. The Duke of Bridgewater's canal from Manchester to Runcorn passes through the town, and affords a facility of conveyance for coal; and early potatoes are cultivated here to a great extent for the Manchester market. The market days are Tuesday and Saturday, the latter being only for butchers' meat; the fairs, chiefly for the sale of live stock, are held on April 29th, Aug. 5th, and Nov. 22d; to the two last are attached courts of pie powder. Altrincham was made a free borough in the reign of Edward I., by a charter of Hamon de Massy, lord of the barony of Dunham Massy, whereby the burgesses were empowered to have a gild merchant, and to choose a prepositus or bailiff; but the only privilege they now possess is that of electing a mayor at a court leet held in autumn, when a jury of burgesses present three of their own body to the steward, who appoints one to the office, which is merely nominal, and the duty of which extends only to the opening of the fairs, the town being wholly within the jurisdiction of the county magistrates. Pleas were formerly held in the lord's court, but have of late been discontinued. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £1000 parliamentary grant. The Earl of Stamford and Warrington was patron in 1826. The chapel, dedicated to St. George, is a plain brick building, erected by subscription in 1799. There are two places of worship for Mcthodists, and one for Unitarians. The Jubilee school, built in 1810, is supported by subsoription. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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