Description
Bickley, a township in Malpas parish, Cheshire, near Cholmondeley Castle, 3 miles E of Malpas. Acreage, 2473 ; population, 891. Post town, Malpas; money order and telegraph office, Cholmondeley. About a quarter of an acre of the surface, covered with trees, sank suddenly on 18 June, 1657, into a deep subterranean flood, long since dried up, leaving a chasm called the Barrel Fall. Two metal tablets, inscribed with a decree of the Emperor Trajan, were found in 1812, and conveyed to the British Museum.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
