Timperley, Cheshire

Description
Timperley, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Cheshire. The township stands 1 mile W of Timperley station on the Manchester, South Junction, and Altrincham railway, and 1 1/2 ENE of Altrincham. It contains a small village and numerous villas, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Altrincham. Acreage, 1638; population of township, 2461; of the ecclesiastical parish, 3128. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. Timperley Lodge, Timperley Hall, and Pickering Lodge are chief residences. Market gardening is largely carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £330 with residence. The church was built in 1849, and enlarged in 1865. There is a Wesleyan chapel.