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The town stands on a bend of the River Dane probably takes it name from the Celtic word congl (a bend).
The New Stone Age people were here as was a Bronze Age settlement.
The parish Church of St Peter was built in the 1740s on a site of an earlier church. It has some fine Georgian box pews and galleries, and 18th century monuments and coats of arms.
Location: on the A54, 8m southwest of Macclesfield
- Type:
- Landmark