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SNELSON

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

"SNELSON, a township in that part of the parish of ROSTHERN which is in the hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of CHESTER, 5¼ miles (S. E.) from Nether Knutsford, containing 137 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]

Snelson was a township in Prestbury ancient parish, Macclesfield hundred (SJ 8073), which became a civil parish in 1866.
The population was 126 in 1801, 169 in 1851, 170 in 1901, 160 in 1951, and 157 in 2001.

Churches

Rostherne: St. Mary (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Snelson.
Over Peover: St. Lawrence (Church of England). An ancient chapel to Rostherne: St. Mary, which became the district church for Snelson in 1827.
Chelford: St. John the Evangelist (Church of England). The district church for Snelson from 1880.
Snelson, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1825.

Civil Registration

Macclesfield (1837-98)
Cheshire East (1998-2007)
Cheshire (2007-09)
Cheshire East (2009+)

Court Records

Prestbury (1828-1974)
Macclesfield (1974+)

This place shown on an OpenStreetMap map.
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OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
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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.)
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Politics and Government

Macclesfield Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
Macclesfield Rural District (1894-1974)
Macclesfield (1974-2009)
Cheshire East (2009+)

Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.

Macclesfield

Voting Registers

North Cheshire (1832-67)
East Cheshire (1868-85)
Knutsford (1885-1948)
Macclesfield (1949-74)