ancient parish
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Cheshire
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Baddington
Baddington is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, which lies immediately to the south-west of Nantwich and north of Audlem. Predominantly rural with scattered farms, the civi ...
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Brindley
Brindley is a village (at ) and civil parish in Cheshire, England. The village lies 3¾ miles to the west of Nantwich. The parish also includes the settlements of Brindley Lea, Ryders Bank and part of Radmore Green,Burland, Cholmondeston,
Edleston
Edleston is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, which lies immediately to the south west of Nantwich. For administrative purposes, it is combined with adjacent civil parishes of ...
Henhull
Henhull is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, which lies to the north west of Nantwich. For administrative purposes, it is combined with adjacent civil parishes of Acton an ...
Poole
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Worleston
Worleston is a village (at ) and civil parish in Cheshire, England, 2½ miles north of Nantwich and 3 miles west of Crewe. The civil parish, which also includes Beambridge, Rease Heath, Mile End and Rookery, had a population at the 2011 Census of ...
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Coole Pilate
Coole Pilate is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, which lies to the north of Audlem and to the south of Nantwich. The area is predominantly rural with scattered farms, and ...
, parts of Dodcott cum Wilkesley, Newhall and Sound, and possibly all or part of Baddiley.Dunn FI. ''The Ancient Parishes, Townships and Chapelries of Cheshire'' ( Cheshire Record Office and Cheshire Diocesan Record Office; 1987) ()Latham FA, ed. ''Acton'', p. 9, (The Local History Group; 1995) () It also contained the chapelries of Church Minshull, Nantwich and Wrenbury.'Houses of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Combermere', pp. 150–156. In: ''A History of the County of Chester'' (Vol. 3) (1980) (accessed 25 February 2008). /ref> By around 1870, the townships and chapelries of Baddiley, Church Minshull, Dodcott cum Wilkesley, Nantwich, Newhall, Sound and Wrenbury had been lost from Acton; the total area of the ancient parish was then 15,542 acres (6,290 hectares), with a population of 3,125.Wilson JM. ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' (1870–72). Quoted in A Vision of Britain Through Time: Acton, Cheshire (accessed 22 February 2008)Acton church served as the main parish church for a wide area to the west of Nantwich. Subsidiary churches were chapels of ease;
St Mary's Church, Nantwich
St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Nantwich, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It has been called the "Cathedral of South Cheshire" an ...
, for example, despite its size, remained a chapel of ease to Acton until the 17th century.Pevsner N, Hubbard E. ''The Buildings of England: Cheshire'', p. 285 (Penguin Books; 1971) ()