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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Astbury

Parish in the County of Cheshire

Etymology

The ancient parish of Astbury comprised the townships 1. Eaton 161 and 2. Somerford Booths 163 in Macclesfield Hundred, and the following in Northwich Hundred, 3. Newbold Astbury, 4. Buglawton (v. foll.), 5. Congleton (a municipal borough chartered in 1272, 1624–5 and 1835, now a c.p. including Buglawton supra ), 6. Davenport (v. Brereton 274supra ), 7. Hulme Walfield, 8. Moreton cum Alcumlow, 9. Odd Rode, 10. Smallwood, 11. Somerford cum Radnor. Also in Astbury parish, originally, were Brereton, Swettenham and Church Lawton, parishes, v. 274, 281supra , 320 infra , Orm2 iii 21, 70.

Major Settlements

Other places in this Parish

Other OS name