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Family & Local History for Odd Rode and surrounding townships under the original Astbury Parish |
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1857 Post Office Directory SOMERFORD BOOTHS township is 3 miles north from Astbury and 3 west-by-north from Congleton. It is in Northwich hundred and Congleton union. Here is a Primitive Methodist Chapel, with a Sunday school. The population, in 1851, was 274, and there are 1,278 acres of land. The chief crops are pasture and wheat. Clement Swetenham, Esq., is owner, who resides at Somerford Booths Hall, a stuccoed mansion, in the Elizabethan style of architecture.
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Transcriptions of the 1857 P.O. Directory kindly provided by Sheila Jones |
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