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Coordinates: 53°10′06″N 2°21′41″W / 53.168381, -2.361436
Bradwall is a small village and civil parish of Borough of Congleton, situated near Crewe in Cheshire. It is a small place that consists of a few houses, a village hall, a stable and a separate riding school.[citation needed] According to the 2001 census, the population of the entire parish was 166.[1]
[edit] History
Bradwall civil parish was originally part of Sandbach Ancient Parish, and was created a separate parish from it in 1866. It also was part of Nantwich Hundred, Congleton Poor Law Union, Rural Sanitary District, and (after 1866) it formed part of Congleton Rural District[2] until 1974, when it became part of the Borough of Congleton.
In terms of parliamentary representation, the Bradwall area (including the time when it was not a separate civil parish) was in the Cheshire Southern Division from 1832 to 1867; in the Cheshire Mid Division, from 1867 to 1885; in the Eddisbury Division, from 1885 to 1918; in the Northwich Division, from 1918 to 1948; from 1948 it was in Knutsford County Constituency,[2] but it is currently in Congleton County Constituency.[3]
[edit] Bibliography
- Youngs, F. A. (1991). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. Volume I: Northern England. London: Royal Historical Society. ISBN 0861931270.
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