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Taken from 1834 trade directory for Cheshire

In Audlem and neighbourhood - described as a purely agricultural parish, there were:

2 surgeons
1 attorney
3 inns & public houses
14 shopkeepers & traders including:
3 retailers of beer
4 shopkeepers
1 druggist
1 saddler
1 blacksmith
1 clock & watch maker
1draper & tailors

Whereas in Bullocksmithy (a small hamlet) - the chief occupation of its inhabitants was in the weaving of silk and cotton, together with Bramhall, Norbury, Poynton and neighbourhoods, there were:

3 surgeons
16 inns & public houses
16 shopkeepers
5 shoe makers
1 joiner & turner
1 cabinet maker
2 wheelwrights
1 seedsman
1 coal merchant
4 blacksmiths

1 hat manufacturer
7 retailers of beer
1 tailor
1 druggist
1 law stationer
1 muslin manufacturer
2 saddlers
1 pluber & glazier
2 iron mongers

And in Cheadle or Cheadle-Bulkeley, classed as a village, Northen and neighbourhoods, there were:

6 surgeons
1 attorney
10 inns & public houses
3 blacksmiths
1 butcher
2 plumber & glaziers
6 shopkeepers
1 wheelwright
2 millers
2 shoe makers
1 joiner
1 stone mason
2 retailers of beer
1 clock maker
1 school master
1 calico printer
1 diaper manufacturer
1 maltster
1 painter
1 sadddler
1 tailor & draper
1 tanner