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Macclesfield is famous with its weekly market. It also has two yearly fair. The festival of All Saints is held on 1 November.  The Barnaby fair is held on 11 June. It is held on St Barnabas day.

The forest of Macclesfield was built by the earls of Chester. Compared to the present day, it was larger. The main function of the forest was for pasturing cattle and hunting deer.

Macclesfield was granted a borough charter by Earl Ranulf III of Chester, in the early 13th century, and a second charter was granted by the future King Edward I, in 1261. The parish church of All Saints was built in 1278, an extension of a chapel built in approximately 1220.

When Charles Stuart and his army wanted to reach London in 1645, they passed through Macclesfield. The prince was welcomed by the mayor in one of the silk tapestries town.

A local legend attaches to the famous flight of 108 steps from Water's Green to St Michael and All Angels Church in Macclesfield? It is said that anyone who can make it from bottom to top without taking a breath on the way will have a wish granted.

When we talk about Macclesfield, we always associate it with the finished silk. Once, it was the biggest producer of finished silk in the world

A 30-ton granite boulder in Macclesfield’s West Park which is actually a glacial erratic, carried south from Cumbria by advancing glaciers around 12,500 years ago. The boulder was presented to the people of Macclesfield in their new public park in 1857, having been discovered during excavations nearby. It took a team of eight horses to move it the 1km to its current location

Macclesfield has appeared in film: it was used as the location for Sir John Mills's film So Well Remembered in 1947. Some of the locations are still recognisable, such as Hibel Road. A fictionalised version of Macclesfield's railway station appeared in the 2005 football hooliganism film Green Street. It was also the location of Control (2007), a film about Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division.

Macclesfield is the original home of Hovis bread makers, produced in Publicity Works Mill (commonly referred to as "the Hovis Mill") on the canal close to Buxton Road.