Baguley, a township, a village, and an ecclesiastical parish in Cheshire, 3 miles ENE of Altrincham. Acreage, 1806; population of the township, 814. It has a station on the Cheshire Lines railway. Market gardening is largely carried on. Baguley Hall, now a farmhouse, belonged to Sir W. Baggiley in the time of Edward II., and passed from him successively to the Leghs, Aliens, and Tattons. The great hall still remains, built of oak and wicker work, and presents fine examples of oak carving. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1868, and includes Brooklands a suburb of Manchester, with a station on the Manchester South Junction and Altrinchan railway. Population, 762. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; value, £300. The church was erected in 1867. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Congregationalists in the township of Baguley.
