The Macclesfield and Knutsford Railway Act, 1871
WHEREAS by "The Macclesfield, Knutsford, and Warrington Railway Act, 1866," (herein-after referred to as the Act of 1866,) the Company thereby incorporated were authorised to make a railway, about twenty-seven miles in length, from the town of Macclesfield in Cheshire, through Knutsford, to Warrington in Lancashire:

And whereas by the 20th section of the said Act the powers of the Company for the compulsory purchase of the lands required for their undertaking were limited to the 28th day of ...