Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

WINCLE

• Wincle was a township and chapelry in Prestbury Parish, Macclesfield Hundred (SJ 9566), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Including the hamlets of Allgreave, Allmeadows, Clewlow Cross, Danebridge, Greasley and Lanehouse.
• The population was 351 in 1801, 336 in 1851, 261 in 1901, and 202 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Prestbury, St. Peter (C of E). The ancient parish church for Wincle.
• Wincle, St. Michael (C of E). A chapelry to Prestbury, becoming the parish church for Wincle in 1869 Registers of Baptisms 1803–1875 and Burials 1803–1925 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office. Marriage registers from 1871 are held at the church.
• Allgreave, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1871.

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)
• Macclesfield (1885–1974)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Macclesfield

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

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

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