Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

ASHTON

• A township in Tarvin Parish, Eddisbury Hundred (SJ 5169).
• Includes 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 1845, rebuilt 1888.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

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

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-date)

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