Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

EATON (near Congleton)

• Eaton was a township in Astbury Parish, Northwich Hundred (SJ 8665), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1936 part of Eaton was added to Congleton in 1936, and the hamlet of Havannah was added to Eaton from Buglawton civil parish.
• The population was 184 in 1801, 584 in 1851, 346 in 1901, and 242 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Astbury, St. Mary (C of E). The ancient parish church for Eaton.
• Eaton, Christ Church (C of E). The parish church for most of Eaton since 1858. Registers of Baptisms 1857–1937 and Burials 1858–1978 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.
• Buglawton, St. John the Evangelist (C of E). Serving a small part of Eaton township from 1840.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Macclesfield Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Macclesfield Rural District (1894+)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• Mid Cheshire (1868–85)
• Macclesfield (1885–1974)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Macclesfield

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Macclesfield (1837–1998)
• Cheshire East (1998+)

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