Description
Yeardsley-cum-Whaley, a township in Taxal parish Cheshire, 8 miles NE of Macclesfield, and 10 1/2 SE of Stockport. It includes the village of Whaley Bridge, which has a station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stockport. Acreage, 1323; population, 1235. Extensive coalmines are adjacent. Yeardsley Hall was formerly the seat of the Jodrells, and is now a farmhouse. There are Baptist and Congregational chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
