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PEOVER INFERIOR

Cemeteries
Churches
Civil Registration
Court Records
Description & Travel

Historical Geography
Maps
Politics
Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.
Voting Registers

"PEOVER (LITTLE), a township in that part of the parish of GREAT-BUDWORTH which is in the hundred of BUCKLOW, county palatine of CHESTER, 3 miles (S. by W.) from Nether Knutsford, containing 88 inhabitants. A school is supported by considerable donations for the education of poor children." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]

Peover Inferior (or Lower Peover) (pronounced Pee-ver) was a township and chapelry in Great Budworth ancient parish, Bucklow hundred (SJ 7474), which became a civil parish in 1866.
It includes the hamlets of Free Green (part), Lower Peover (part) and Smithy Green.
The population was 131 in 1801, 121 in 1851, 144 in 1901, 111 in 1951, and 102 in 2001.

Cemeteries

Anglican
St Oswald, Lower Peover, Church of England

Churches

Great Budworth: St. Mary & All Saints (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Lower Peover.
Lower Peover: St. Oswald (Church of England). An ancient chapel to Great Budworth, serving the township of Lower Peover.

Anglican
St Oswald, Lower Peover, Church of England

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Civil Registration

Altrincham (1837-98)
Bucklow (1898-1974)
Macclesfield (1974-98)
Cheshire East (1998-2007)
Cheshire (2007-09)
Cheshire East (2009+)

Court Records

Bucklow (1828-1974)
Macclesfield (1974+)

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StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
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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
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Politics and Government

Altrincham Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
Altrincham Rural District (1894-95), Bucklow Rural District (1895-1974)
Macclesfield (1974-2009)
Cheshire East (2009+)

Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.

Altrincham (1836-95)
Bucklow (1895-1930).

Voting Registers

North Cheshire (1832-67)
Mid Cheshire (1868-85)
Knutsford (1885-1974)