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WALGHERTON

Churches
Civil Registration
Court Records
Description & Travel
Historical Geography

Maps
Politics
Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.
Voting Registers

"WALGHERTON, a township in the parish of WYBUNBURY, hundred of NANTWICH, county palatine of CHESTER, 3¾ miles (S. E. by E.) from Nantwich, containing 246 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]

Walgherton was a township in Wybunbury ancient parish, Nantwich hundred (SJ 6948), which became a civil parish in 1866.
It includes the hamlet of Hussey's Nook.
The population was 211 in 1801, 213 in 1851, 178 in 1901, 199 in 1951, and 121 in 2001.

Churches

Wybunbury: St. Chad (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Walgherton.

Civil Registration

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

Court Records

Nantwich (1828-1974)
Crewe & Nantwich (1974-92)
South Cheshire (1992+)

Description and Travel

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Historical Geography

1990 April 1 — Lost part to Wybunbury

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Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ697489 (Lat/Lon: 53.036511, -2.453315), WALGHERTON which are provided by:

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Google Streetview
StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
OpenStreetMap
Bing (was Multimap)
OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
National Library of Scotland (Best site for old maps)
Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
Elgin Road Works
GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
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Nearby townships/parishes shown on a Google / Openstreetmap map.
Nearby places shown on a Google / Openstreetmap map.

Politics and Government

Nantwich Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
Nantwich Rural District (1894-74)
Crewe & Nantwich (1974-2009)
Cheshire East (2009+)

Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.

Nantwich

Voting Registers

South Cheshire (1832-67)
West Cheshire (1868-85)
Eddisbury (1885-1948)
Crewe (1949-54)
Nantwich (1955-74)