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Title: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
Post by: plimmerian on Sunday 10 January 21 00:26 GMT (UK)
Has anyone got knowledge of a Bollingbrook Farm or Swiss Cottage near the cemetery end of Macclesfield, known as Bollingbrook. Thanks!  :-\
Title: Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
Post by: CaroleW on Sunday 10 January 21 00:30 GMT (UK)
What is the timescale - current or past?
Title: Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
Post by: goldie61 on Sunday 10 January 21 09:08 GMT (UK)
google maps have the area as 'Bollinbrook'.
If I remember right, the river through Macclesfield is the Bollin, so 'Bollinbrook', not 'Bollingbrook'.
North of Macclesfield cemetery.
Title: Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
Post by: BumbleB on Sunday 10 January 21 09:15 GMT (UK)
Here they are - next door to each other - Swiss Cottage and Bollinbrook Farm.

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=53.26753&lon=-2.13877&layers=6&right=BingHyb
Title: Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
Post by: carol8353 on Sunday 10 January 21 09:48 GMT (UK)
Facebook have a page called Macclesfield Memories,they have some very knowledgeable people on there who have great memories.

My mum was born in Macc  ;D
Title: Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
Post by: plimmerian on Sunday 10 January 21 10:16 GMT (UK)
Thanks for replies and correcting my spelling!

In 1939 Bollinbrook Farm, appears to be a dairy farm run by Mr & Mrs Brocklehurst.
And Swiss Cottage appears to be owned by cotton textile merchant John Walton.

In 1911 the Brocklehurst family from Staffordshire appear at Bollin Brook Farm, Upton, Cheshire - the research continues!

 ;)

Title: Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
Post by: plimmerian on Sunday 10 January 21 10:36 GMT (UK)
1881 as (52 acres) Bollin Lane Farm, Upton, Cheshire run by the Barber clan, parents of the family also from Staffordshire.

Swiss Cottage entry blank
the next Swiss Cottage entry is a Marshal McKnight, insurance clerk
Title: Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
Post by: plimmerian on Thursday 14 January 21 10:50 GMT (UK)
https://maps.nls.uk/view/101598850 (https://maps.nls.uk/view/101598850)

c1945

my friend's mother told him there were prefabs built on the land there, before the housing estates that are there now!
Title: Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
Post by: Scottjwilson1987 on Saturday 13 April 24 22:22 BST (UK)
Hi all,

I've only just seen this as I was searching for the Bollinbrook farm too. I know the area that it was in, it's now flattened and has been a housing estate for at least 40 years now.

My 3 x Great Grandfather used to own the farm until his death in 1893. I don't know anything about it through the family as I'm the one researching it.