Bollington

English Etymology From en enm Bolin River enm Bollin + ang tūn settlement, 'the settlement on the river Bollin'. Proper noun en town/and/cpar with a town council in bor/Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of co/Cheshire cc/England OS grid ref SJ9377. en 1863 Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England Twenty fourth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1eASAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT33 xxxi The township of Bollington (Macclesfield) has been very unhealthy the whole year. There were 50 deaths in it this quarter, 22 of which were from typhus and scarlatina. en 1808 Sir Henry Holland, Board of Agriculture and General Improvement General view of the agriculture of Cheshire: with observations drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement Minerals http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eVMOAAAAQAAJ&dq=bollington 14 Collieries are established in the townships of Hurdsfield, Rainow, Bollington, Adlington, Pott- Shrigley, Lyme, Worth, Poynton, and Norbury