Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

IRBY

• Irby was a township in Wirral Hundred (SJ 2584), mainly in Woodchurch Parish (except for a small area in Thurstaston Parish), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1933 a small part of Arrowe was added to Irby.
• Since 1974 Irby has been part of the county of Merseyside.
• The population was 96 in 1801, 180 in 1851, and 146 in 1901.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Woodchurch, Holy Cross and Thurstaston, St. Bartholomew (C of E) were the ancient parish churches for Irby.
• Irby, Methodist Chapel (Primitive).

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Wirral Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Wirral Rural District (1894–1933)
• Wirral Urban District (1933–74)
• Wirral Metropolitan Borough [Merseyside] (1974+)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Wirral (1885–1974)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Wirral

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Wirral (1837–1974)
• Birkenhead (1974–98)
• Wirral (1998+)

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