Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

SOMERFORD BOOTHS

• Somerford Booths was a township in Astbury Parish, Northwich Hundred (SJ 8366), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Including the hamlets of Newsbank and Wornish Nook.
• The population was 250 in 1801, 274 in 1851, 195 in 1901, and 160 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Astbury, St. Mary (C of E). The ancient parish church for Somerford Booths.
• Hulme Walfield, St. Michael (C of E). The parish church since 1878.
• Somerford Booths, Methodist Chapel (Primitive, later Wesleyan). Built in 1835.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

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

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• North Cheshire (1832–67)
• East Cheshire (1868–85)
• Knutsford (1885–1974)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Congleton

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Congleton (1837–1937)
• Macclesfield (1937–74)
• Congleton and Crewe (1974–88)
• South Cheshire (1988–98)
• Cheshire East (1998+)

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