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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

CHURCH HULME

• Church Hulme was a township and chapelry in Sandbach ancient parish, Northwich hundred (SJ 7667), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• The civil parish was renamed Holmes Chapel in 1976.
• Includes the village of Holmes Chapel and part of the hamlet of Saltersford.
• The population was 314 in 1801, 555 in 1851, 866 in 1901, and 1460 in 1901.

For the period after 1976, see Holmes Chapel.

Boundary Changes

• 1976 October 11 — Renamed Holmes Chapel

Churches and Chapels

• Sandbach: St. Mary (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Church Hulme.
• Church Hulme: St. Luke (Church of England). An ancient chapel to Sandbach: St. Mary, and the district church for the township of Church Hulme from 1733.
• Holmes Chapel: St. Margaret (Roman Catholic).
• Church Hulme, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1813, rebuilt in 1900. Registers of baptisms 1844-1973 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
• Church Hulme, Methodist Chapel (Free). Built in 1851. With burial ground.

Local Government Districts

• Congleton Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
• Congleton Rural District (1894-1974)
• Congleton (1974-76)

Cemeteries

• Holmes Chapel Cemetery, Knutsford Road. Opened 1876.

Electoral Districts

• South Cheshire (1832-67)
• Mid Cheshire (1868-85)
• Knutsford (1885-1974)

Petty Sessional Divisions

• Northwich (1828-99)
• Middlewich & Sandbach (1899-1907)
• Middlewich (1907-67)
• South East Cheshire (1967-74)
• Congleton (1974-1976)

Poor Law Unions

• Congleton

Registration Districts

• Congleton (1837-1937)
• Crewe (1937-74)
• Congleton & Crewe (1974-76)

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