Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

BRIMSTAGE

• A township in Bromborough Parish, Wirral Hundred (SJ 3082). Transferred to the county of Merseyside in 1974.
• The population was 127 in 1801, 126 in 1851, 181 in 1901 and 135 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Bromborough, St. Barnabas (C of E). The ancient parish church for Brimstage.
• Thornton Hough, All Saints (C of E). The parish church since 1869.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Wirral Rural Sanitary District (1875-94); Wirral Rural District (1894-1933); Bebington Urban District (1933-37); Bebington Municipal Borough (1937-74); Wirral Metropolitan Borough [Merseyside] (1974-date)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

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

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Wirral

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Wirral (1837-1974); Birkenhead (1974-98); Wirral (1998-date)

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