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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

BUGLAWTON

• Buglawton was a township in Astbury Parish, Northwich Hundred (SJ 8663), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1936 the Havannah district was added to Eaton (near Congleton), and the remainder of Buglawton became part of Congleton.
• Including the hamlets of Dane-in-Shaw, Havannah, Key Green, and Timbersbrook.
• The population was 517 in 1801, 2052 in 1851, and 1452 in 1901.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Astbury, St. Mary (C of E). The ancient parish church for Buglawton.
• Buglawton, St. John the Evangelist (C of E). A separate parish church from 1841, serving the whole of Buglawton and a small part of Eaton (near Congleton). Registers of Baptisms 1840–1957, Marriages 1841–1950 and Burials 1839–1939 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.
• Buglawton, Methodist Chapel (Primitive), Mill Street. Built in 1823.
• Key Green, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1821, rebuilt in 1845.
• Buglawton, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan), Dane-in-Shaw. Built in 1824, rebuilt in 1898, closed in 1973. Registers of marriages 1911–56 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
• Timbersbrook, Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Built in 1883, closed in 1969.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Buglawton Local Board (1863–75)
• Buglawton Urban Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Buglawton Urban District (1894–1936)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• Mid Cheshire (1868–85)
• Macclesfield (1885–1948)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Congleton

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Congleton (1837–1937)

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