 These include The Buxton, The Queen Adelaide, The Werneth, The Cheshire Cheese in 1817 the Cheshire Cheese premises were three private cottages owned by Bristowe Cooper.Behind them was a small dingle called Sugar Loaf Wood and one could walk down a path through this to a plantation which was owned by Samuel Ashton, the cotton magnate.The cottages were later transformed into a school for the children of Gee Cross and Bristowe Cooper became the schoolmaster.