The following is taken from Kellys Directory of Cheshire 1902 which can be found on the Internet at www.historicaldirectories.org.
WILDBOARCLOUGH is a township in the parish of Prestbury ecclesiastically annexed to Macclesfield Forest, 6 miles south-east from Macclesfield, the nearest railway station, in the Macclesfield division of the county, petty sessional division of Prestbury hundred, union and county court district of Macclesfield, in a bold mountainous district on the verge of the county adjoining Derbyshire and Staffordshire: a great part of the township is uninclosed moorland. There is a Mission room in the Clough, in which divine service is conducted once every Sunday by the vicar of the Forrest. Brough's charity of £1 12s. yearly is for distribution in money. Cragg Hall, the property of the Earl of Derby K.G., P.C., G.C.B. is a mansion of stone, beautifully situated and surrounded with pleasure grounds, but now (1902) unoccupied. "Shutlingslow," a bold peak 1,658 ft. above the sea level, is in this township, which also contains some quarries: in the valley is a fine trout stream. The township contains 5,021 acres of land and 19 of water, all the property of the Earl of Derby K.G., P.C., G.C.B. who is lord of the manor; the soil is sandy; subsoil, rocky. The land is chiefly pasture; the rateable value, £2,561; the population of the township in 1901 was 200.
By Local Government Board Order, ND. 22,378, a part of Wincle township was in 1888 transferred to Wildboarclough.
National School (mixed), erected in 1876, for 55 children; average attendance, 31; Edward Essex, master
Post, Telegraph & Express Delivery Office. - Mrs. EstberSeed, sub-postmistress. Letters through Macclesfield arrive at 10.30 a.m; dispatched at 1 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Wincle.
(30 names follow including Gasking Rev. John Trist (incumbent of Macclesfield Forest), The Parsonage : Remington Wm. Farmer, Dry Knoll: Wheelton Danl. frmr. Lower Nabbs)
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