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"WARFORD (GREAT), a township in the parish of ALDERLEY, hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of CHESTER, 5 miles (E. by S.) from Nether Knutsford, containing 336 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Baptists." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Great Warford was a township in Alderley ancient parish, Macclesfield hundred (SJ 8177), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- It includes the hamlets of Dean Green, Gatley Green, Monks Heath and Soss Moss.
- The population was 287 in 1801, 348 in 1851, 394 in 1901, 1035 in 1951, and 615 in 2001.
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- Alderley: St. Mary (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Great Warford.
- Great Warford, Baptist Chapel. Registers start in 1757.
- Great Warford, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1843, closed in 1963. Registers of baptisms 1859-1961 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
- Macclesfield (1837-1998)
- Cheshire East (1998-2007)
- Cheshire (2007-09)
- Cheshire East (2009+)
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Great Warford to another place.
- 1936 April 1 — Lost part to Mobberley (102 acres, pop. 18 in 1931)
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ812777 (Lat/Lon: 53.295798, -2.284083), Great Warford which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey 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)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Macclesfield Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Macclesfield Rural District (1894-1974)
- Macclesfield (1974-2009)
- Cheshire East (2009+)