Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

SOMERFORD

• Somerford was a township in Astbury ancient parish, Northwich hundred (SJ 8459), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• It includes the hamlets of Black Firs and Loachbrook (part).
• The population of Somerford was 142 in 1801, 79 in 1851, 98 in 1901, and 531 in 1951.

Boundary Changes

• 1895 October 1 — Gained the whole of Radnor (pop. 26 in 1901)

Churches and Chapels

• Astbury: St. Mary (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Somerford.
• Somerford: All Saints A private chapel, attached to Astbury: St. Mary.
• Hulme Walfield: St. Michael (Church of England). The district church for the former civil parish of Radnor, which became part of Somerford in 1895.

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)
• Knutsford (1885-1974) *

* The former civil parish of Radnor, which became part of Somerford in 1895, remained in the Macclesfield Division until 1915.

Petty Sessional Divisions

• Northwich (1828-99)
• Middlewich & Sandbach (1899-1907)
• Congleton (County) (1907-67)
• South East Cheshire (1967-74)
• Congleton (1974-92)
• South Cheshire (1992+)

Poor Law Unions

• Congleton

Registration Districts

• Congleton (1837-1937)
• Macclesfield (1937-74)
• Congleton & Crewe (1974-88)
• South Cheshire (1988-98)
• Cheshire East (1998-2007)
• Cheshire (2007-09)
• Cheshire East (2009+)

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