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BASFORD

Churches
Civil Registration
Court Records
Description & Travel
Historical Geography

Maps
Politics
Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.
Voting Registers

"BASFORD, a township in the parish of WYBUNBURY, hundred of NANTWICH, county palatine of CHESTER, 4¾ miles (E.) from Nantwich, containing 86 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]

Basford was a township in Wybunbury ancient parish, Nantwich hundred (SJ 7152), which became a civil parish in 1866.
The population was 55 in 1801, 69 in 1851, 69 in 1901, 229 in 1951, and 266 in 2001.

Churches

Wybunbury: St. Chad (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Basford.
Weston by Crewe: All Saints (Church of England). The district church for Basford from 1840.

Anglican
St Mark, Shavington, Church of England

Methodist
Crewe Road, Shavington, Methodist (Wesleyan)
Main Road, Shavington, Methodist (Wesleyan)
Providence Chapel, Shavington, Methodist (Wesleyan)
Rope Lane, Shavington, Methodist (Primitive)
St John, Shavington, Methodist

Other
Shavington, Free Gospel

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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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Gazetteers

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Historical Geography

1990 April 1 — Gained part of Shavington cum Gresty

You can see the administrative areas in which BASFORD has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ699518 (Lat/Lon: 53.06259, -2.450604), BASFORD which are provided by:

This place shown on an OpenStreetMap map.
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 an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Politics and Government

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

Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.

Nantwich

Voting Registers

South Cheshire (1832-67)
West Cheshire (1868-85)
Crewe (1885-1954)
Nantwich (1955-74)