Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

BRIDGEMERE

• A township in Wybunbury Parish, Nantwich Hundred (SJ 7144).
• Includes the hamlets of Admiral's Gorse, Parrah Green, Prince Hill, Seven Stars and Wheel Green.
• The population was 230 in 1801, 220 in 1851, 149 in 1901 and 141 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Wybunbury, St. Chad (C of E). The ancient parish church for Bridgemere.
• Doddington, St. John (C of E). The parish church since 1840.
• Bridgemere, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built 1831.

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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