Stalybridge, a cotton town of Cheshire and Lancashire, with machine-shops, &c., 7½ miles E. by N. of Manchester. It was made a municipal borough in 1857, a parliamentary borough in 1867. Pop. of the former (1851) 20,760; (1891) 26,783; of the latter (1891) 44,135.
Stalybridge,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 674
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