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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

RAINOW

• Rainow was a township and chapelry in Prestbury Parish, Macclesfield Hundred (SJ 9677), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Including the hamlets of Brookhouse, Bullhill, Calrofold, Cester Bridge, Charles Head, Eddisbury, Four Lane Ends, Ginclough, Gorseybrow, Harrop, Hedgerow, Hough Green, Hough Hole, Ingersley, Jenkin Chapel, Kerridge End, Lamaload, Nab End, Pedley Fold, Plungebrook, Redmoor Brow, Saltersford, Tower Hill, Walkers Barn, Yearnslow and Waggonshaw Brow.
• The population was 1390 in 1801, 1605 in 1851, 1205 in 1901, and 1088 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Prestbury, St. Peter (C of E). The ancient parish church for Rainow.
• Rainow, Holy Trinity (C of E). Founded 1765 as a chapel to Prestbury, serving part of Rainow township. Registers of Baptisms 1765–1992, Marriages 1846–1941 and Burials 1815–1959 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office
• Saltersford, St. John the Baptist. A chapel to Prestbury, created a separate parish in 1864 to serve Kettleshulme and part of Rainow township. Registers of Baptisms 1770–1821, Marriages 1865–1921 and Burials 1770–1821 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office
• Rainow, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Founded 1807, Built in 1878. Registers 1808–1837 and 1912–1975 are at the Cheshire Record Office.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Macclesfield Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Macclesfield Rural District (1894–1974)
• Macclesfield (1974–2009)
• Cheshire East (2009+)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• North Cheshire (1832–67)
• East Cheshire (1868–85)
• Knutsford (1885–1915)
• Macclesfield (1918–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Macclesfield

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Macclesfield (1837–1998)
• Cheshire East (1998+)

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