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Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
« 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!  :-\

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Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 10 January 21 00:30 GMT (UK) »
What is the timescale - current or past?
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Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
« Reply #3 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
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Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
« Reply #4 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
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Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
« Reply #5 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!

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Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
« Reply #6 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.

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the next Swiss Cottage entry is a Marshal McKnight, insurance clerk

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Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 14 January 21 10:50 GMT (UK) »
https://maps.nls.uk/view/101598850

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my friend's mother told him there were prefabs built on the land there, before the housing estates that are there now!

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Re: Bollingbrook in Macclesfield
« Reply #8 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.
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