Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

BICKERTON

• A township in Malpas Parish, Broxton Hundred (SJ 5153).
• Includes the hamlet of Gallantry Bank.
• The population was 270 in 1801, 398 in 1851, 323 in 1901 and 256 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Malpas, St. Oswald (C of E). The ancient parish church for Bickerton.
• Bickerton, Holy Trinity (C of E). Built 1840 as a chapel to Malpas St Oswald; becoming the parish church for Bickerton, Broxton, Bulkeley, Duckington, Egerton and Larkton in 1843. Registers of Baptisms 1847-1960, Marriages 1868-1987 and Burials 1847-1948 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office

CEMETERIES

• Bickerton Cemetery. Opened 1880.

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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