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"CARRINGTON, a chapelry in the parish of BOWDON, hundred of BUCKLOW, county palatine of CHESTER, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Altrincham, containing 531 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £1000 private benefaction, £1000 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Earl of Stamford. The chapel, dedicated to St. George, was consecrated in 1759." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Carrington was a township in Bowdon ancient parish, Bucklow hundred (SJ 7492), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- Since 1974 it has been part of the county of Greater Manchester.
- It includes the hamlet of Holly Bank.
- The population was 435 in 1801, 536 in 1851, 514 in 1901, 627 in 1951, and 396 in 2001.
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- 1920 April 1 — Gained parts of Flixton, Lancashire (13 acres, pop. 0 in 1921) and Irlam, Lancashire (4 acres, pop. 0 in 1921), and lost parts to Altrincham (84 acres, pop. 0 in 1921), Flixton, Lancashire (5 acres, pop. 0 in 1921), and Irlam, Lancashire (55 acres, pop. 0 in 1921), when the boundary with Lancashire was adjusted to follow the course of the Manchester Ship Canal
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- Altrincham Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Altrincham Rural District (1894-95)
- Bucklow Rural District (1895-1974)
- Trafford Metropolitan Borough [Greater Manchester] (1974+)