Prestbury, Cheshire - The Parish

The Parish

At the time of the Norman conquest, the parish consisted of thirty-five townships:

  • Adlington
  • Alderley
  • Birtles
  • Bollington
  • Bosley
  • Butley
  • Capesthorne
  • Chelford
  • Fallibroome
  • Gawsworth
  • Henbury
  • Hurdsfield
  • Kettleshulme
  • Lower Withington
  • Lyme Handley
  • Macclesfield
  • Macclesfield Forest
  • Marton
  • Mottram St.Andrew
  • Newton
  • North Rode
  • Old Withington
  • Pott Shrigley
  • Poynton
  • Prestbury
  • Rainow
  • Siddington
  • Sutton
  • Taxal
  • Tytherington
  • Upton
  • Wildboarclough
  • Wincle
  • Woodford
  • Worth

Prestbury township was not mentioned in the Domesday Book, perhaps because information was not supplied or because Prestbury was only a church, not a manor.

Twelve of the other townships are mentioned. Butley was valued at 2 shillings at the time of the Domesday Survey, compared with 30 shillings at the time of Edward the Confessor, Adlington and Macclesfield were both worth 20 shillings and Siddington 5 shillings. The other eight townships were valued "Waste".

The church administered the civil as well as ecclesiastical affairs of the parish until the Local Government Act 1894 created rural districts and civil parishes. Three of the townships, Butley, Fallibroome and Prestbury, constitute fhe present civil parish of Prestbury.

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