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CARDEN

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"CARDEN, a township in the parish of TILSTON, higher division of the hundred of BROXTON, county palatine of CHESTER, 4 ½ miles (N. N. W.) from Malpas, containing 195 inhabitants. A detachment of dragoons from the parliamentary garrison at Nantwich, on the 12th of June, 1643, plundered Garden Hall, and made prisoner its owner, John Leche, Esq." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]

Carden was a township in Tilston ancient parish, Broxton hundred (SJ 4652), which became a civil parish in 1866.
It includes the hamlets of Carden Marsh, Higher Carden and Lower Carden.
The population was 124 in 1801, 190 in 1851, 163 in 1901, 98 in 1951, and 69 in 2001.

Churches

Tilston: St. Mary (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Carden.

Civil Registration

Great Boughton (1837-69)
Chester (1870-1937)
West Cheshire (1937-74)
Chester & Ellesmere Port (1974-98)
Cheshire West (1998-2007)
Cheshire (2007-09)
Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)

Court Records

Broxton (1828-1974)
Chester (1974-2001)
Chester, Ellesmere Port & Neston (2001-12)
West Cheshire (2012+)

Description and Travel

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Historical Geography

2015 April 1 — Exchanged parts with Clutton

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Maps

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Politics and Government

Tarvin Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
Tarvin Rural District (1894-1974)
Chester (1974-2009)
Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)

Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.

Great Boughton (1837-71)
Tarvin (1871-1930)

Voting Registers

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