Brereton-cum-Smethwick, Cheshire Family History Guide

Brereton-cum-Smethwick is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cheshire.

Other places in the parish include: Smethwick.

Alternative names: Brereton

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1538
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1593

Nonconformists include: Calvinist and Independent/Congregational.

Adjacent Parishes

• Elworth
• Astbury
• Church Hulme
• Smallwood
• Middlewich
• Sandbach

Old Maps of Brereton-cum-Smethwick

All the historic ordnance survey maps listed below are free to view online. All maps are available to view full screen.

UK Great Britain, Ordnance Survey (1:1 million-1:10,560), 1900s

UK Great Britain, Ordnance Survey one-inch to the mile (1:63,360), ‘Hills’ edition, 1885-1903

UK Great Britain, Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile (1:10,560), 1888-1913

UK Ordnance Survey Historical Maps from 1919-1947

UK Great Britain, Ordnance Survey ‘Provisional’ edition (1:25,000), 1937-1961

UK Great Britain, Ordnance Survey One-Inch Seventh Series (1:63,360), 1955-1961

Parish History

Brereton Hall Sandbach Cheshire

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BRERETON-CUM-SMETHWICK, a parish in Congleton district, Cheshire; on the river Croke, 2 miles SE of Holmes-Chapel r. station, and 3 NE by N of Sandbach.

It has a post office, of the name of Brereton, under Congleton; and is a seat of petty sessions. Acres, 4,501. Real property, £7,801. Pop., 592. Houses, 104. The property is subdivided.

Brereton Hall was built by Sir W. Brereton, the parliamentary leader; and is now the seat of the Howards.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value, £681. Patron, Mrs. E. Royds. The church is later English, and good; and there are three dissenting chapels.

A school has £8; and other charities £19.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

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Administration

• County: Cheshire
• Civil Registration District: Congleton
• Probate Court: Pre-1541 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1540 – Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Pre-1541 – Lichfield and Coventry, Post-1540 – Chester
• Rural Deanery: Middlewich
• Poor Law Union: Congleton
• Hundred: Northwich
• Province: York