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Marple is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is on the River Goyt, 9 miles (14 km) south-east of Manchester, 9 miles (14 km) north of Macclesfield and 4 miles (6 km) south-east of Stockport. In 2021, it had a population of 12,980.
Place: Marple Cheshire. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Marple like this: MARPLE, a village, a township-chapelry, and a subdistrict, in Stockport district, Cheshire.
Marple, or Merpel as it was written when the name first appeared on the pages of history, was omitted from the Domesday Survey made by William I in 1086 probably being a waste land inside the boundary of Macclesfield Forest.
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Text and maps from an exhibition giving the history and development of the Marple area. There are sections on The Forests, The Domesday Book, the Hearth Tax, Road, Canal and Rail and changes during the reign of Henry V111 in 1536 which led to the…
For centuries the area east of the River Goyt now called Marple Bridge was part of the township of Ludworth in the Hundred of the High Peak in the county of Derbyshire. The land to the west of the river was called Low Marple, part of the township of Marple, in the Hundred of Macclesfield in the County of Cheshire.
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Historical Description. Marple, a village, a township, and three ecclesiastical parishes in Stockport parish, Cheshire. The village stands on the Peak Forest and Macclesfield Canal, near the river Goyt at the boundary with Derbyshire, 4 miles ESE of Stock-port, and has two stations-one on the M.R. and M.S. & L.R. and another on the Macclesfield ...
