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PICKMERE

Churches
Civil Registration
Court Records
Description & Travel
Historical Geography

Maps
Politics
Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.
Voting Registers

"PICKMERE, a township in that part of the parish of GREAT-BUDWORTH which is in the hundred of BUCKLOW, county palatine of CHESTER, 3½ miles (N.E.) from Northwich, containing 217 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]

Pickmere was a township in Great Budworth ancient parish, Bucklow hundred (SJ 6977), which became a civil parish in 1866.
The population was 148 in 1801, 242 in 1851, 203 in 1901, 411 in 1951, and 541 in 2001.

Churches

Great Budworth: St. Mary & All Saints (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Pickmere.
Pickmere, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Founded in 1770. Registers 1811-1839 are at the Cheshire Record Office.

Methodist
Pickmere Lane, Pickmere, Methodist (Wesleyan)

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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 (1828-1906)
Northwich (1906-74)
Macclesfield (1974+)

Description and Travel

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Historical Geography

1936 April 1 — Lost part to Wincham (18 acres, pop. 21 in 1931)

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Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ693771 (Lat/Lon: 53.289968, -2.461995), PICKMERE 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
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Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

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)