Knutsford

Knutsford ('Canute's ford'), a pleasant-looking town of Cheshire, 15 miles S.W. of Manchester by rail, the Cranford of Mrs Gaskell's sketches, with manufactures of cotton, worsted, and leather goods, and a pop. of (1851) 3127; (1881) 4290. In 1888 the elder son of Sir Henry Holland (q.v.) was created Baron Knutsford. See H. Green's History of Knutsford (1859).