Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rainow

Rainow, township and vil., Prestbury par., Cheshire, 2½ miles NE. of Macclesfield, 5744 ac., pop. 1281.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Prestbury AP/CP       Rainow CP/Ch       Cheshire AncC
Place: Rainow

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