Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

BETCHTON

• A township in Sandbach Parish, Northwich Hundred (SJ 7858).
• Includes the hamlets of Boult's Green, Chellshill, Dean Hill, Dubthorne (part), Four Lane Ends (part), Hassall Green, Lawton Heath End, Malkin's Bank (part) and Roughwood.
• The population was 578 in 1801, 822 in 1851, 692 in 1901 and 719 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Sandbach, St. Mary (C of E). The ancient parish church for Betchton.
• Wheelock, Christ Church (C of E). The parish church since 1840.
• Malkins Bank, Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Built 1859, closed 1969. Registers 1843-1946 are at the CRO.
• Hassall Green, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Founded 1829, the present chapel was built in 1858. Registers of baptisms 1838-1952 are at the CRO.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

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

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832-67); West Cheshire (1868-85); Crewe (1885-1948); Knutsford (1949-74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Congleton

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

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

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