Sandbach, Cheshire East

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Sandbach is a town in Cheshire East

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Sandbach within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Sandbach in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Sandbach, market town, par., and township with ry. sta. (Sandbach Junction), Cheshire, 4½ miles NE. of Crewe - par., 16,310 ac., pop., 10,219; town and township, 2584 ac., pop. 5493; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks, 1 newspaper. Market-day, Thursday. Sandbach has mfrs. of boots and shoes, ironworks, wireworks, fustian factories, &c., and (in the neighbourhood) saltworks. It has a spacious grammar school, and in the market-place are two antique obelisks.

Sandbach in the Domesday Book

A village in Middlewich hundred, in the county of Cheshire.

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