Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

ADLINGTON

• A township in Prestbury Parish, Macclesfield Hundred (SJ 9180).
• Including the hamlets of Booth Green, Clark Green, Dangerous Corner, Four Lane Ends, Harrop Green, Hibbert Brow, Hollingsworth Smithy, Hope Green, Midway (part), Pedley Hill, Skellorn Green, Styperson, Wardsend, Whiteley Green, and Wood Lanes.
• The population was 847 in 1801, 1104 in 1851, 765 in 1901 and 823 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Prestbury, St. Peter (C of E). The ancient parish church for Adlington.
• Adlington, Methodist Chapel (New Connexion). Built 1870, closed 1957. Registers of marriages 1941-54 are at the CRO.
• Adlington, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan).

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Macclesfield Rural Sanitary District (1875-94); Macclesfield Rural District (1894-1974); Macclesfield (1974-date)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• North Cheshire (1832-67); East Cheshire (1868-85); Knutsford (1885-1948); Macclesfield (1949-74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Macclesfield

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Macclesfield (1837-98); Cheshire East (1998-date)

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