Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

ASHTON

• Ashton was a township in Tarvin Parish, Eddisbury Hundred (SJ 5169), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 2004 it was renamed Ashton Hayes.
• Including the hamlets of Ashton Hayes, Brine's Brow and Woodside.
• The population was 342 in 1801, 430 in 1851, 408 in 1901, and 394 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Tarvin, St. Andrew (C of E). The ancient parish church for Ashton.
• Ashton Hayes, St. John the Evangelist (C of E). A separate parish from 1849, serving the townships of Ashton, Horton cum Peel and Mouldsworth. Registers of Baptisms 1849–1952, Marriages 1849–2000 and Burials 1849–1926  have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office. 
• Ashton, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan, later Primitive). Built in 1845, rebuilt in 1888.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Tarvin Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Tarvin Rural District (1894–1974)
• Chester (1974–2009)
• Cheshire West and Chester (2009+)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Eddisbury (1885–1948)
• Northwich (1949–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Great Boughton (1837–71)
• Tarvin (1871–1930)

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Great Boughton (1837–69)
• Chester (1870–1937)
• West Cheshire (1937–74)
• Chester & Ellesmere Port (1974–98)
• Cheshire West (1998+)

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