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mile, and a cutting of about the same length (across which is a bridge), bring us to the 43¼ post; nearly opposite here, to the left, is the place at which it was proposed to commence the Manchester and Cheshire Junction Railway. From a short embankment which extends to the Coppenball Station, a good view of the country may be obtained; it is here particularly rich, abounding with wood and luxuriant pasture. The

CREWE is a small township in the parshparish [sic] of Barthornley, and hundred of Nantwich; Pop. 295; A.. As. Val. £1,993.

From this station Nantwich lies 4 miles to the westward; Sandbach, 5; Congleton, 11; Macclesfield, 19 to the the eastward. ( resumed page 63.)

NANTWICH is a market-town and parish in the hundred of the same name, county of Chester, situated on each side of the Weaver, in a valley which contains some of the richest dairyland in the kingdom; Pop., town and parish, 5,357, town, 4,886; An. As. Val. £6,484. Market on Saturday; Fairs. March 26, the 2nd