Description
Butley, a village and a township in Prestbury parish, Cheshire, adjacent to Prestbury station on the L. & N.W.K., 3 1/2 miles N of Macclesfield, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Prestbury. Acreage of township, 1811; population, 523. Butley Hall and Bonis Hall are the chief residences. Some of the inhabitants are silk weavers. Roman remains have been found. Newton, who wrote a history of the Saracens, was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
