Crossword-Solution: ALTRINCHAM 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Coming out of the moor, we found ourselves within half a dozen miles of Manchester--practically in its suburbs, for Stalybridge, Stockport, Altrincham and other large manufacturing towns are almost contiguous with the main city.

Thompson states that "it derives its name from a place called Altrincham, in Cheshire, Eng., where it is supposed to have originated.

Brushfield that he had never seen it used, but that at the petty sessions it had often been produced _in terrorem_, to stay the volubility of a woman's tongue; and that a threat by a magistrate to order its appliance had always proved sufficient to abate the garrulity of the most determined scold." [Illustration: BRANK AT MACCLESFIELD.] Towards the close of the first quarter of the present century, the brank was last used at Altrincham.

The Manchester, South Junction & Altrincham and the Wirral railways are small systems serving the localities indicated by their names.

There are eight parliamentary divisions, namely, Macclesfield, Crewe, Eddisbury, Wirral, Knutsford, Altrincham, Hyde and Northwich, each returning one member; the county also includes the parliamentary borough of Birkenhead returning one member, and parts of the borough of Stockport, which returns two members, and of Ashton-under-Lyne, Chester, Stalybridge, and Warrington, which return one member each.