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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

ALPRAHAM

• Alpraham was a township in Bunbury ancient parish, Eddisbury hundred (SJ 5860), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• It includes the hamlets of Barrets Green (part) and Highwayside.
• The population was 335 in 1801, 518 in 1851, 481 in 1901, and 381 in 1951.

Churches and Chapels

• Bunbury: St. Boniface (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Alpraham.
• Tilstone Fearnall: St. Jude (Church of England). The district church for Alpraham from 1901.
• Alpraham, Methodist (General) Chapel (Primitive). Built in 1882, replacing a smaller building nearby built in 1845. Registers of baptisms 1905-1962 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
• Alpraham, Methodist (Grove) Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1828, closed in 1962. Registers of marriages 1931-1962 are at the Cheshire Record Office.

Local Government Districts

• Nantwich Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
• Nantwich Rural District (1894-1974)
• Crewe & Nantwich (1974-2009)
• Cheshire East (2009+)

Electoral Districts

• South Cheshire (1832-67)
• West Cheshire (1868-85)
• Eddisbury (1885-1948)
• Crewe (1949-54)
• Nantwich (1955-74)

Petty Sessional Divisions

• Eddisbury (1828-1974)
• Crewe & Nantwich (1974-92)
• South Cheshire (1992+)

Poor Law Unions

• Nantwich

Registration Districts

• Nantwich (1837-1937)
• Crewe (1937-74)
• Congleton & Crewe (1974-88)
• South Cheshire (1988-98)
• Cheshire Central (1998-2007)
• Cheshire (2007-09)
• Cheshire East (2009+)

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