Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

AGDEN (near Lymm)

• A township Bowdon and Rostherne Parishes in Bucklow Hundred (SJ 7186).
• Includes the hamlet of Agden Brow.
• The population was 85 in 1801, 73 in 1851, 115 in 1901 and 79 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Bowdon, St. Mary (C of E) and Rostherne, St. Mary (C of E) were both ancient parish churches serving parts of Agden.
• Bollington, Holy Trinity (C of E). The parish church from 1869.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Altrincham Rural Sanitary District (1875-94); Altrincham Rural District (1894-95); Bucklow Rural District (1895-1974); Macclesfield (1974-date)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• North Cheshire (1832-67); Mid Cheshire (1868-85); Altrincham (1885-1945); Bucklow (1945-48); Knutsford (1949-74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Altrincham (1837-95); Bucklow (1895-1930)

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Altrincham (1837-98); Bucklow (1898-1974); Macclesfield (1974-98); Cheshire East (1998-date).

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