Description
Bosley, a village a township, and an ecclesiastical parish, in Prestbury parish, Cheshire, adjacent to the Macclesfield canal, 5 miles S by W of Macclesfield. The village has a station on the North Staffordshire railway, and a post-office under Congleton, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of township, 3197; population, 364. There is a large reservoir connected with the Macclesfield Canal. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £90 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Prestbury. The church, originally Norman, was rebuilt, withe the exception of the tower, in 1777.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
