Astbury, Cheshire
Astbury is one of the eight ancient parishes of the Macclesfield Hundred of Cheshire.[1] It comprises two chapelries and ten townships. The chapelry of Congleton was an ancient borough[2] and became a municipal borough in 1835.[3] In 1866 the townships and chapelries became civil parishes in their own right.
Chapelries:
Townships:
- Davenport
- Eaton
- Hulme Walfield
- Moreton cum Alcumlow
- Newbold Astbury
- Odd Rode
- Radnor
- Smallwood
- Somerford
- Somerford Booths
References
Outside links
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- Location map: 53°8’24"N, 2°11’42"W
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