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Adderley was the scene of a feud between two local families, the Corbets and the Needhams, over fox-hunting.

Heawood Hall was a small gentry house in Nether Alderley, once the home of the Hollinsheds, a family that included the 16th-century chronicler who was Shakespeare`s source for many of his

Originally named Alderley, the station became Alderley & Chorley in April 1853, and Alderley Edge in January 1876.

When the Eagle and Child closed as an inn, it occasioned another change in Alderley life. For centuries, the Alderley Wakes had been held there beside the churchyard.

This great open-cast canyon no longer exists, it was filled in by tipping household waste in the 1960s, but it shows how active the Alderley Edge Mining Company was in the second quarter of

In the highly stratified society of Alderley Edge village, the Liberal Unionist Club in Stephen Street was for the village`s tradesmen.

While Chorley Old Hall is still recognisable for what it was, and lies, still with its moat, on the outskirts of Alderley Edge village, Hawthorn Hall, originally part of the hamlet of Morley, is

OF ALL the villages in this collection, Nether Alderley perhaps gives us the best impression of what a north-eastern Cheshire village was like before the Industrial Revolution changed both the

At the junction of Rileys Lane and the A34 are St Philip`s Parish Church and the Alderley Edge village war memorial.

Later, Alderley council offices occupied the site.

It was once said that there were more millionaires living in Alderley Edge than anywhere else in England, save for London itself.

In the 1930s, they also sold day licences for fishing in Radnor Mere in Alderley Park.

A number of retailers and farmers had produce rounds in Alderley, delivering groceries, dairy produce and even wines and spirits to the door, or rather, the back door.

although it appears on a map to extend Duke Street towards the hill and one can walk through, there is no vehicular access between the two roads, so Duke Street remains a quiet back street in Alderley

What is thought to be the oldest inhabited house in Cheshire is also near Alderley Edge: the stone-built portion of Chorley Hall is thought to date from about 1330, the remainder being Elizabethan.

Within 20 years, well-to-do commuter communities had sprung up along the lines; indeed, Alderley Edge village itself did not exist before the trains came - it is a Victorian creation dating from

This view is looking north up Alderley Edge`s main shopping street, the little gardens in front of the premises can clearly be seen.

These girls look as if they are taking a break in their lunch hour, perhaps from the newly established ICI pharmaceutical laboratories in Alderley Park.

This is where the road between Knutsford and Macclesfield crosses the one from Alderley Edge village to Holmes Chapel.

This view looking south over Lindow Moss towards Alderley Edge, overlooks the area where Lindow Man, a first-century sacrificial victim, was found in 1984.

At this time, Nether Alderley water mill was still the estate mill for the Stanley estate.

Dorothy and Margaret Pilkington, who lived at Firwood in Alderley Edge village, managed to get the Wizard Woods protected.

This view, looking north along what is now the main A34 towards Alderley Edge village, shows where Welsh Row crossed the old turnpike, connecting the old enclosed fields on the plain with the open

Many of the Manchester businessmen that settled in Alderley in the mid 19th century came from a Nonconformist background and they often kept up their connections with the city.