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

Somerford

1857 Post Office Directory

SOMERFORD township, 3 miles west from Astbury and 3 west-by-south-west from Congleton, in Northwich hundred and Congleton union. Somerford Park, the seat of Sir Charles Peter Shakerley, Bart., is a red brick mansion, pleasantly situated, overlooking the vale of the river Dane. The population, in 1851, was 97, and there are 1,203 acres of land. Sir C.P. Shakerley, Bart., is lord of the manor and owner. The soil is sandy and clay, and produces good crops of pasture and wheat.

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