Cheshire Parishes : Audlem

AUDLEM

A township in Audlem Parish, Nantwich Hundred (SJ 6643).
Includes the hamlets of Bunsley Bank, Chapel End (part), Copthorne, Corbrook (part), Cox Bank, Daisy Bank, Gorse Croft, Kinsey Heath (part), Little Heath, Longhill (part), Raven's Bank (part), Salford, Swanbach, West View, Woolfall (part).
The population was 965 in 1801, 1591 in 1851, 1455 in 1901 and 1315 in 1951.

Audlem, St. James the Great (C of E). An ancient parish church, originally serving the townships of Audlem, Buerton, Hankelow and Tittenley, with parts of Coole Pilate, Dodcott cum Wilkesley and Newhall (near Audlem). Registers of Baptisms 1557-1928, Marriages 1557-1923 and Burials 1557-1947 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.
Audlem, Baptist Chapel. Built 1840.
Cox Bank, Jubilee Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Built 1861.
Audlem, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built 1862.
Audlem, Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Built 1871, closed 1943. Registers of baptisms 1878-1926 are at the CRO.

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

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

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