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| Lower Withington | |
|---|---|
  Lower Withington Location within Cheshire | |
| Population | Expression error: "492[1]" must be numeric |
| OS grid reference | SJ814697 |
| Civil parish |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | STOCKPORT |
| Postcode district | SK11 |
| Dialling code | 01477 |
| Police | Cheshire |
| Fire | Cheshire |
| Ambulance | North West |
| UK Parliament | |
Lower Withington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. The population of the entire civil parish was 492 at the time of the 2001 census.[1] The parish contains most of Jodrell Bank Observatory and arboretum.[2]
History
[edit]Neither Lower Withington nor any related name used in the vicinity (e.g., Old Withington) are mentioned in the Domesday Book. The earliest reference to Withington is 1185, where the name appeared as Widington and Widenton.By 1210, the middle d of these names had changed into a th. Some later variations used the names Wytinton (1285), Wyvinton (1337), and Wittington (1540).[3]
Governance
[edit]Little Warford civil parish was created in 1951 when the civil parish of Marthall cum Warford was abolished and divided into two parts: Little Warford and Marthall civil parishes. It was in Bucklow Rural District until 1974, and has been in the Borough of Macclesfield since 1974.[4]
Marthall cum Warford had been a township in Rostherne ancient parish, and had been created a separate civil parish in 1866. It had been in Bucklow Hundred. From 1836 to 1895 it had been in Altrincham Poor Law Union, when it was transferred to Bucklow Poor Law Union until 1930. It was also in Altrincham Rural Sanitary District. From 1894 to 1895 it had been in Altrincham Rural District, and from 1895 to 1951 it had been part of Bucklow Rural District.[5]
Little Warford is in the Macclesfield constituency for the UK parliament, although the area had previously been in Knutsford constituency (1885–1948), the Mid Cheshire (1867–1885), the North Cheshire (1832–1867), and the Cheshire (1543–1832) constituencies.[6]
Notes and references
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ a b "Neighbourhood Statistics. Ares: Lower Withington CP (Parish)". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 February 2009.
- ^ "Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics: Visitor Centre". University of Manchester: Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. Retrieved 2 February 2009.. Additionally, see SJ 797 709 (British national grid reference system) on Sheet 268: Wilmslow, Macclesfield & Congleton (Altrincham, Knutsford & Sandbach), Ordnance Survey Explorer Map (1:25000 scale), Southampton, United Kingdom: Ordnance Survey, ISBN 0319237451
- ^ Dodgson (1970, pp. 88, 89, 92)
- ^ Youngs, F. A. (1991). page 40.
- ^ Youngs, F. A. (1991). page 26.
- ^ Youngs, F. A. (1991). pages 26, 40. Harris, B. E. (Ed.) (1979). pages 98–166.
Bibiliography
[edit]- Dodgson, J. McN. (1970), The place-names of Cheshire. Part one: Country name, regional and forest names, river names, road names, the place-names of Macclesfield hundred, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521077036
- Harris, B. E. (Ed.) (1979), The Victoria history of the county of Chester. (Volume II), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 019722749X
- Youngs, F. A. (1991), Guide to the local administrative units of England. (Volume 1: Northern England), London: Royal Historical Society, ISBN 0861931270
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