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506, ISA~DBACH. CHESHIRE. [KELLY'S800, and an office for the rate collector; at the sout.h-west The Consolidated charities, consisting of houses andangle is a square tower, with octagonal turret, containing land, producing about £2,000 yearly, are distributeda clock with illuminated' d~als on three sides, presented annually as follows :-£350 Jearly for 20 almspeople;by Mrs. Jane Court, late of Wbeelock House, in memory £200 for the deserving poor of the parish, £120 for 12of her relatives, the Peover family. The retail market is out-pensioners, £IOO to the National school, £1 to thealso held here every Thursday and Saturday. The foun. chapelwardens of Church Hulme, £2 to the chapelwardensdation stone was laid 2nd July, 1889, by Lordi Crewe, by of Goosetry, £3 3s. to the clergyman of Sand:bach forwhom also the site and market tolls were given to the Wheelock sermons, 5s. each to the clerk andl sexton oftown. I Sandba~h, and the greater portion of the remainder toThe Old Town Hall, which formerly stood in the square, the Grammar school. There are also charities in addiwa~demolished in 1891. tion to the above, amounting to about £49 yearly, derivedThe Temperance Hall, in Scotch Commons, a plain red from various sources', and: distributed every year by thebrick building holding 300 persons, is! at present (1902) churchwardens of Sandbach as follows, viz. :-£'4 inused' as an Infant School in connection with the National shillings to 80 poor people, £5 in food for poor sickSchool.persons, £19 in bread to tbe poor attending the parishThe, Literary and Scientific Institution, High town, church on Sunday mornings, and lOS. to the churcherectedin 1857 at a cost of £2,7°0, is a structure of brick wardens of Wheelock and Hassall,ornamented with ~tone i~ the Perpendicular style, .from The Almshouses on the Hill were ere~ted in 1865-7 at aplans by the late SIr G. GI~bert Scott R.A..and contams on total cost of about £2,600, and endowed from the Sandtheground floor a readmg room and hb.r~ry o~ 1,5°0 bach Consolidated charities. They a,re arranged for 20volumes, ~nd. on the first floor a large.room 10 whIch the inmates (either men or women), elected by the governorspetty seSSIons, county court and meetlOgs are held. of t·he above charities, each having' an allowance of 6s.The County ~olice S~ation, Bo!d street, erected 18~7. at per week. •a cost of £800, I~ an ed.ifice' of brIck and.stone" comprlslOg A tract of 5 acres of land has been acquired for the puroffices,c.ells and. a reSIdence for the chIef officer. . poses of a recreation ground, and adjoining it is the. The ~Ire StatIon, on Scotch.Commons, er~cted 10 18 73, DlOgle lake of 3 acres which will be used for boating.IS a plam structure of red brlck, and conSIsts of engme :\. k' . h k l' h . 6 bhouse only. • , S IrmIS too p ace ere 10 I 51 etween the i~-The G Company, 5th Battalion Oheshire Regiment, habItants. and! t~e Scotch cavalry co~manded by Mal4about 90 rank and file; head quarters at Congleton. The Gen. DaVId Lesbe, who was t·hen on his retreat a!ter thearmourv is on &otch commons. battle of Worcester, 3 September, 1651• It IS thusThe Savin~s Bank, at the west end of High street, a described in No. 66 ~f the" Mercurius Politicus ": "Theybuilding in,. the Elizabethan style, was ere-cted in 1854, so managed t~e bus~ess that, when the Scots offered tofrom fund'S accumulated in the hands of the actuary of fire, t,hey ran IOto theIr houses, and as soon as that partythe bank. was past ~hich had the pistols> andl pow~'er, they f~ll,upon'l'he chief trade is in salt, chemicals and! fustian cut- t~,e. remamder o! the troops, and contm~ed. peab,~,g andting. Boots and shoes are also manufactured', and there bIllIng them durmg the pa.ssage. of all theIr horse.are brine springs, 'E!'Xtensive salt works, and steam and The Earl of Crewe P.C. 18 lord of the manor, and holdswater corn mills 'in the parish.annu~l1y a court leet and baron for the manOr at the OldThe town was formerly celebrated' for the goodness of Hall IOn.its malt liquor, and worsted yarn and stuffs for country The parish comprises the townships of Arclid, Bradwall,wear were manufactured: in large quantities by its in- Blackden, Cotton, Cranage, Leese, Rudheath, Sandtbach,habitants'. Sir John Ratcliff, of Ordsall, in Lancashire, Hassall, Twemlow, Wheelock, Betchton, with the chapelin1578 obtained the grant of a market, to be held on Bes of Church Hulme anw Goostrey-cunvBarnshaw.Thursday, and two fairs to be held on the Tuesday andThe area of the township is 2,676 acres of land and 18 ofWednesd'ay in Easter week, and on Thursday and !riday water; rateable value, £18,935; the population in IgOIbefore the nativity o! Our Lad,y: the market is' still held of the township and Urban District was 5,556. Theon Thursda~', and fall'S are held on Easter Tuesday, the population of Sandbach ecclesiastical parish in 1891 wasfirst Thursday after the IIth of September and the 28th 4,551 and of Sandbaoh Heath, 973.of. December; the latter is ~ great cattle ~nd ple~s';1re Parish Clerk, William Nock.fall', and on the same d'ay IS a statute fall' for hlrIOg S t Arth All kservants. I ex on, ur coc.The market place contains two ancient obelisks or i Ettiley Heath is a, place in Saudbach parish. There iserosses, respectively 16 feet 8 inches and, II feet II inches i a Primitive Methodist chapel, ere