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Goostrey cum Barnshaw
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"GOOSTREY, a chapelry, joint with Barnshaw, in that part of the parish of SANDBACH which is in the hundred of NORTHWICH, county palatine of CHESTER, 5½ miles (N. E. by E.) from Middlewich, containing 298 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £600 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Sandbach. The interest of £200 was bequeathed to the minister in 1684, by Elizabeth Staplehurst, for teaching the children in the parish." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Goostrey cum Barnshaw was a township and chapelry in Sandbach ancient parish, Northwich hundred (SJ 7770), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- The civil parish was abolished in 1936 to become part of Goostrey.
- It includes the hamlets of Barnshaw, Jodrell Bank (part), Shawcroft and Winterbottom.
- The population was 231 in 1801, 268 in 1851, 352 in 1901.
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- 1936 April 1 — Abolished and incorporated into Goostrey (1795 acres, pop. 508 in 1931)
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- Congleton Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
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