Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

HANDFORTH CUM BOSDEN

• Handforth cum Bosden was a township in Cheadle and Stockport Parishes, Macclesfield Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1877 the two detached areas of Bosden and Handforth became separate civil parishes.
• The population was 1034 in 1801 (with Bosden) and 2671 in 1851.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Cheadle, St. Mary (C of E). The ancient parish church for Handforth cum Bosden
• Handforth, St. Chad (C of E). A chapel in Cheadle parish, becoming the parish church in 1877.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Stockport Rural Sanitary District (1875–77).

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• North Cheshire (1832–67)
• East Cheshire (1868–77)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Stockport

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Stockport

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