Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

SMALLWOOD

• Smallwood was a township in Astbury Parish, Northwich Hundred (SJ 8060), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Including the hamlets of Brookhouse Green, Four Lane Ends (part), Martin's Moss, Mirian Heath, Mossend, Moss Mere, Overton Green, Pool Lane End, Rue Moss, Simms Green, Spen Green, Spen Moss and Wallhill.
• The population was 492 in 1801, 619 in 1851, 530 in 1901, and 585 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Astbury, St. Mary (C of E). The ancient parish church for Smallwood.
• Smallwood, St. John the Baptist (C of E). Founded 1845 as the parish church for Smallwood. Registers of Baptisms 1845–1946, Marriages 1847–1983 and Burials 1847–1941 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.
• Smallwood, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Founded 1811. Registers 1920–1976 are at the Cheshire Record Office.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

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

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• Mid Cheshire (1868–85)
• Crewe (1885–1948)
• Knutsford (1949–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Congleton

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Congleton (1837–1937)
• Crewe (1937–74)
• Congleton and Crewe (1974–1988)
• South Cheshire (1988–98)
• Cheshire East (1998+)

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