macclesfield street name?

[Stewart R]

Can anybody tell me please if there is or was a Derby street in Macclesfield, as it appears on the 1841 census.

Regards

Stewart 

[CaroleW]

It doesn't show on   www.multimap.com  or on the route planner section of www.theaa.com

[rolnora]

 I had ancestors living there on the 1851 and '61 census ,so it did exist not sure that it does now.
Looking at the 1861 census again it seems to be near Mill Street.
That does show on the mutimap web site that CaroleW gave to you.

[carol8353]

It was very near Stanley Street too according to the 1851 census.
My mum grew up in the next road along,King Edward Street.
A lot of the houses in that area have been knocked down for road 'improvements'

There's now a one way street that runs parallell with the High Street and has the main car parks off it.

The Silk Museum is also fairly nearby,but a little further along,in Roe Street.

Carol

Added- Derby Street was still there on the 1911 census...probably knocked down in the 1960's-70's.

[Birtle]

There's a brief description of its location  in Clarice Stella Davies' 'History of Macclesfield' p.14. You can find extracts (including p.14) on Google books by googling on <derby street macclesfield>.
Once you know roughly where Derby Street is (somewhere in the region of Chestergate and Mill St) then you could take a look at http://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithemaps/ where I think there are various detailed 19th-cent maps of Cheshire together with more modern ones.
Hope this helps,
Birtle

[Mumsie2131]

When I lived there I used a wonderful shop for material and it was on Mill Street called 'Derby Street Warehouse' so I guess it was in that area which was parallel to Mill Street but not as far away as Churchill Way.

[Stewart R]

Thanyou very much for everyones interest here. The info you have all provided is quite useful, particularly the reference to the google books search. I must confess I haven't seen that before and I think it may prove to be of considerable use to me.

Thanks again

regards

Stewart

[millymcb]

Might be worth mailing the folks at the visitor centre in Bollington. They have a very large picture collection and I think it includes some pictures of old Macclesfield. They are very helpful folk


http://happy-valley.org.uk/discover/picarch1.htm


Milly

[Bilge]

Have you looked here http://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/ch3612.htm

 Here are the details of maps for Macclesfield (South):

Cheshire Sheet 36.12 Macclesfield (South) 1897 - published 2001; intro by Chris Makepeace
This detailed map covers the southern part of Macclesfield, with coverage stretching from Derby Street southward to Byron's Lane, and from Oxford Road eastward to Blakelow Road. Features include railway but no stations, Park House, Sutton Pottery, Sunnyside Mill, Sutton Mills, Soho Mill, Macclesfield Canal, Hovis Flour Mill, St Paul's church, St John's church, Library, St George's church, Christ Church, Militia Barracks, Oxford Road Mill, silk mills, etc.

The map links up with Cheshire sheet 36.08 Macclesfield North to the north.