A township in Tarvin Parish, Broxton Hundred (SJ 4863).
Includes the hamlets of Brereton Park, Greenlooms (part) and Hargrave.
The population was 212 in 1801, 236 in 1851, 204 in 1901 and 153 in 1951.
CHURCHES AND CHAPELS
Tarvin, St. Andrew (C of E). The ancient parish church for Foulk Stapleford.
Hargrave, St. Peter (C of E). A chapelry in Tarvin parish, a separate parish from 1878 serving the townships of Foulk Stapleford and Huxley.
Registers of Baptisms 1744-1883, Marriages 1746-49 and burials 1744-1995 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office, where
Bishop's Transcripts 1632-1889 are held. Registers of Marriages from 1841 are held at the church.
Hargrave, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built 1859, closed 1981.
ELECTORAL DISTRICTS
South Cheshire (1832-67); West Cheshire (1868-85); Eddisbury (1885-1948); Northwich (1949-74)
POOR-LAW UNIONS
Great Boughton (1837-71); Tarvin (1871-1930)
REGISTRATION DISTRICTS
Great Boughton (1837-69); Chester (1870-1937); West Cheshire (1937-74); Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974-98); Cheshire West (1998+)
