Cheshire Towns & Parishes : Claughton with Grange

CLAUGHTON WITH GRANGE

Claughton with Grange (or Claughton cum Grange) was a township in the ancient parishes of Bidston and Woodchurch, Wirral hundred (SJ 3089), which became a civil parish in 1866.
The civil parish was abolished in 1898 to become part of Birkenhead.
It included the hamlets of Birkenhead Park and Flaybrick.
The population was 67 in 1801 and 714 in 1851.

For the period after 1898, see Birkenhead.

Bidston: St. Oswald (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the greater part (395 acres, pop. 2073 in 1871) of the township of Claughton with Grange.
Woodchurch: Holy Cross (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the smaller part (44 acres, pop. 364 in 1871) of the township of Claughton with Grange.
Claughton: Christ Church (Church of England). Built in 1849 as a chapel to Bidston: St. Oswald, becoming the district church for part of Claughton with Grange from 1876.
Oxton: St. Saviour (Church of England). The district church for part of Claughton with Grange from 1851
Claughton: St. Michael & All Angels (Church of England). Built in 1858 as a chapel to Christ Church, becoming a district church in 1912.
Claughton, Friends' Meeting House (Quakers). Park Road South/Slater Street. Founded in 1836.
Claughton, Trinity Presbyterian Church (Church of England), Beresford Road. Founded in 1863, Built in 1866.

See also Birkenhead.