Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

MORETON (near Wallasey)

• Moreton (formerly Moreton cum Lingham) was a township in Bidston Parish, Wirral Hundred (SJ 2690), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1928 the whole of Moreton was added to Wallasey.
• Included the hamlets of Leasowe and Lingham.
• The population was 210 in 1801, 350 in 1851, and 597 in 1901.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Bidston, St. Oswald (C of E). The ancient parish church for Moreton.
• Moreton, Christ Church (C of E). Founded 1863 as the parish church for Moreton and Saughall Massie. Registers of Baptisms 1863–1973 and Marriages 1864–1977 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office (no burials).
• Leasowe, St. Chad (C of E). The parish church for part of Moreton since 1957.
• Moreton, Sacred Heart (Roman Catholic), The Cross. Founded 1923.
• Moreton, Our Lady of Lourdes (Roman Catholic), Leasowe Road. Founded 1957.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Wirral Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Wirral Rural District (1894–1928).

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Wirral (1885–1945)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Wirral

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Wirral (1837–1928)

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