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HIGHER WHITLEY

Churches
Civil Registration
Court Records
Description & Travel
Historical Geography

Maps
Politics
Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.
Voting Registers

"WHITLEY(OVER), a township in that part of the parish of GREAT-BUDWORTH which is in the hundred of BUCKLOW, county palatine of CHESTER, 5½ miles (N.N.W.) from Northwich, containing 244 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]

Higher Whitley (or Whitley Superior) was a township in Great Budworth ancient parish, Bucklow hundred (SJ 6280), which became a civil parish in 1866.
In 1936 the civil parish was abolished to become part of Whitley.
It included the hamlets of Grimsditch, Higher Whitley and Norcott Brook
The population was 283 in 1801, 322 in 1851, and 323 in 1901.

After 1936 see Whitley.

Churches

Great Budworth: St. Mary & All Saints (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Higher Whitley.
Lower Whitley: St. Luke (Church of England). A chapelry in Great Budworth parish from 1777, becoming the district church for Higher Whitley in 1834.
Higher Whitley, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan).

Methodist
Pillmoss Lane, Higher Whitley, Methodist (Wesleyan)

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Civil Registration

Runcorn (1837-1936)

Court Records

Bucklow (1828-39)
Daresbury (1839-1936)

Description and Travel

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Historical Geography

1936 April 1 — Abolished and incorporated into Whitley (1020 acres, pop. 339 in 1931)

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Maps

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Politics and Government

Runcorn Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
Runcorn Rural District (1894-1936)

Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.

Runcorn

Voting Registers

North Cheshire (1832-67)
Mid Cheshire (1868-85)
Knutsford (1885-1936)