Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HALMER-END

HALMER-END, a liberty in Audley parish, Stafford; 4½ m. NW of Newcastle-under-Lyne. Real property, £, 845; of which £600 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1, 049; in 186, , 275. Houses, 276. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of coal mining.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a liberty"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Audley CP/AP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Halmer End

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