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SANDBACH , a marketSee also: town in the See also: Crewe See also: parliamentary division of See also: Cheshire, See also: England, 5 M
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N.E. of Crewe, on the See also: London
& See also: North-Western and North See also: Staffordshire See also: railways
.
Pop
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of See also: urban See also: district (1901) 5558• It lies on a headstream of the
small See also: river Wheelock, a tributary of the See also: Weaver
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The parish See also: church of St Mary is Perpendicular, with a
See also: fine carved roof of the 17th century
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A few old timbered houses, of the same See also: period, remain
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In the market-place are two remarkable crosses covered with See also: rude carvings, and assigned by some to the 7th century, being similar to those at Monasterboice and elsewhere in See also: Ireland
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There are See also: boot and shoe factories, chemical See also: works and a manufactory of fustians, with See also: salt-works and iron-works in the adjacent township of Wheelock
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