Cheadle, or Cheadle Bulkeley, is a village and township in the hundred of Macclesfield, six miles south of Manchester and three west from Stockport. The Bulkeleys held a portion of the manor for many generations, and, about 1558, Sir Richard Bulkeley, Knight, obtained entire possession of it by his marriage with the daughter of Sir John Savage. In 1756 the manor was sold to the Rev. Thos. Egerton, of Cheadle, who devised it to the Beresfords; and in 1806 part was conveyed to the Worthington family, of Ringway, whose trustees hold a court on the 25th October for Cheadle Bulkeley, and Lloyd Hesketh Bamford Hesketh, Esq. on the 24th of June as lord of the manor for Cheadle Hulme and Cheadle Mosely. The church of Cheadle consists of a nave, chancel, and side aisles, with a tower, containing six bells: in the north aisle is the Cheadle Mosely chancel, and in the south aisle the Hondfurd chancel. The monuments are but few in number, those only worthy of notice are to the Brereton and Bulkeley families: the dates of these are 1673 and 1678, but the period when this church was erected does not appear. The Rev. Henry Delves Broughton is the rector and patron, and the Rev. Matthew Dunn the present curate. Here is also a Wesleyan chapel. A school was founded here by John Robinson, for the education of eight children. John Gatley, of Manchester, left £100. to the establishment, which now gives instruction to fourteen children of Cheadle Bulkeley, Cheadle Hulme and Cheadle Mosely. Upon the Mersey are some corn mills, and there are in the township some print and bleaching works. The country, although flat round here, is fertile and pleasing. Cheadle parish embraces the townships of Cheadle Bulkeley, Cheadle Mosely, and Handforth; and its population is about 6,500, including 3,229 in the township of Cheadle Bulkeley.

Transcribed from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory of Cheshire, 1828-9.