Hide
--- TEST SYSTEM --- TEST SYSTEM --- TEST SYSTEM ---
Hide
Carrington
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
Hide
"CARRINGTON, a chapelry in the parish of BOWDON, hundred of BUCKLOW, county palatine of CHESTER, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Altrincham, containing 531 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £1000 private benefaction, £1000 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Earl of Stamford. The chapel, dedicated to St. George, was consecrated in 1759." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
Hide
- Carrington was a township in Bowdon ancient parish, Bucklow hundred (SJ 7492), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- Since 1974 it has been part of the county of Greater Manchester.
- It includes the hamlet of Holly Bank.
- The population was 435 in 1801, 536 in 1851, 514 in 1901, 627 in 1951, and 396 in 2001.
Hide
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Carrington to another place.
- 1920 April 1 — Gained parts of Flixton, Lancashire (13 acres, pop. 0 in 1921) and Irlam, Lancashire (4 acres, pop. 0 in 1921), and lost parts to Altrincham (84 acres, pop. 0 in 1921), Flixton, Lancashire (5 acres, pop. 0 in 1921), and Irlam, Lancashire (55 acres, pop. 0 in 1921), when the boundary with Lancashire was adjusted to follow the course of the Manchester Ship Canal
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ741928 (Lat/Lon: 53.431343, -2.391283), Carrington 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.
- Altrincham Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Altrincham Rural District (1894-95)
- Bucklow Rural District (1895-1974)
- Trafford Metropolitan Borough [Greater Manchester] (1974+)