Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

ALPRAHAM

• A township in Bunbury Parish, Eddisbury Hundred (SJ 5860).
• 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 (C of E). The ancient parish church for Alpraham.
• Tilstone Fearnall, St. Jude (C of E). The parish church since 1901.
• Alpraham, Methodist (General) Chapel (Primitive). Built 1882, replacing a smaller building nearby built in 1845. Registers of baptisms 1905-1962 are at the CRO.
• Alpraham, Methodist (Grove) Chapel (Wesleyan). Built 1828, closed 1962. Registers of marriages 1931-1962 are at the CRO.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Nantwich Rural Sanitary District (1875-94); Nantwich Rural District (1894-1974); Crewe & Nantwich (1974-date)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

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

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Nantwich

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Nantwich (1837-1937); Crewe (1937-74); Congleton & Crewe (1974-88); South Cheshire (1988-98); Cheshire Central (1998-date)

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