A township in Alderley Parish, Macclesfield Hundred (SJ 8375).
Includes the hamlets of Dean Green, Gatley Green, Monks Heath and Soss Moss.
The population was 483 in 1801, 606 in 1851, 522 in 1901 and 529 in 1951.
CHURCHES AND CHAPELS
Alderley, St. Mary (C of E). An ancient parish church, originally serving the townships of Great Warford, Nether Alderley and Over Alderley. Registers of Baptisms 1629-1988, Marriages 1629-1992 and Burials 1629-1942 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office, where Bishop's Transcripts survive from 1599.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS
Macclesfield Rural Sanitary District (1875-94); Macclesfield Rural District (1894-1974); Macclesfield (1974-date)
ELECTORAL DISTRICTS
North Cheshire (1832-67); East Cheshire (1868-85); Knutsford (1885-1948); Macclesfield (1949-74)
POOR-LAW UNIONS
Macclesfield
REGISTRATION DISTRICTS
Macclesfield (1837-1998); Cheshire East (1998-date)
