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Family & Local History for Odd Rode and surrounding townships under the original Astbury Parish

Moreton cum Alcumlow

1857 Post Office Directory

MORETON-CUM-ALCUMLOW, or GREAT MORETON, is a township of scattered houses, 2½ miles south-south-west from Congleton (its nearest market and post town and money order office), in the southern division of the county, Astbury parish, Congleton union, Northwich hundred, deanery, archdeaconry, and diocese of Chester, pleasantly situated near the Macclesfield canal and the North Staffordshire railway. George Holland Ackers, Esq., is lord of the manor and chief landowner, and resides at Moreton Hall, a handsome castellated mansion, situated in a well-wooded park. Alculmlow is a hamlet near the western verge of the township, of which Randle Wilbraham, Esq., J.P., is the owner. The population, in 1851, was 133; and the acreage is 1,100.
RADNOR township, 2 miles east from Astbury and 2 north-west from Congleton, in Northwich hundred and Congleton union. Here are two farm-houses.

Transcriptions of the 1857 P.O. Directory kindly provided by Sheila Jones