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Cotton Relief Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Rostherne

Etymology

, a wood or plantation from which the timber would be sold for the relief of distressed cottonmill - hands in La and Ch during the great Cotton Famine of 1862 – 65 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name