Adlington, a township in Prestbury parish, Cheshire, 5 miles N of Macclesfield. It has a station on the L. & N.W.R., 170 miles from London, and a post office under Macclesfield; money order office at Prestbury. Valuable mines of coal and flagstone are in the neighbourhood. Acreage, 3899 ; population, 819. Many of the inhabitants are silk-weavers. Adlington Hall is an old seat, the great hall dating from the time of Elizabeth, and in 1645 was taken by the Parliamentary forces after a fourteen-days' siege. It is now the residence of the Gubbins-Legh family. There are chapels for Wesleyans and New Connexion Methodists.
