Description
Farley, a township in Alton parish, Staffordshire, 1 mile from Alton and Oakamoor station on the W Staffordshire railway, and 4 miles ENE of Cheadle. Acreage, 2329; population. 490. Alton Towers, the seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, is in this township. See ALTON.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
