Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

PUDDINGTON

• Puddington was a township in Burton Parish, Wirral Hundred (SJ 3174), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Including the hamlets of Badger's Rake (part), Benty Heys, Croxton Wood and Two Mills (part).
• The population was 139 in 1801, 176 in 1851, 126 in 1901, and 410 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Burton, St. Nicholas (C of E). The ancient parish church for Puddington.
• Puddington, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Founded 1896.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Wirral Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Wirral Rural District (1894–1933)
• Chester Rural District (1933–74)
• Chester (1974–2009)
• Cheshire West and Chester (2009+)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Wirral (1885–1948)
• Chester (1949–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Wirral

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Wirral (1837–1937)
• West Cheshire (1937–74)
• Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974–98)
• Cheshire West (1998+)

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