Northwich RegD/PLU through time | Census tables with data for the Poor Law Union/Reg. District

Administrative unit

Northwich RegD/PLU

Poor Law Union/Reg. District

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Population

Densities and rates of growth. Age structure: concentrations of young people, and of the old.

Industry

How people made their living: identifying farming communities, pit villages, mill towns and so on.

Life & Death

Numbers of babies born. Deaths, especially infant deaths. Causes of death by age and gender.

Work & Poverty

Unemployment rates and poor relief. What proportions of men and of women did paid work?

Housing

Numbers of houses. Overcrowding: persons per room. Amenities: central heating, baths and WCs.

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Total Population 1801 to 1911: Population grew from 17,252 in 1801 to 57,100 in 1911.
Age Structure, in 5-year bands, from 1851 to 1911: In 1851, only 4.7 per cent of the population were aged 65 and over, but by 1911 4.91 per cent were.
Infant Mortality Rate 1871 to 1911: The highest rate recorded was 165.96 infant deaths per thousand live births in 1901, and the lowest was 115.34 in 1881.
Occupational Structure in 1881:

Here we are presenting statistics for a historical unit, which may have changed its boundaries significantly during the period covered.

Preferred Name:: NORTHWICH
Unit Type:: Poor Law Union/Reg. District
Status:: Poor Law Union
Registration District
Date created:: 1837
Date abolished:: 1930
Unit ID:: 10154960
Authorities:: F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 641.

Northwich RegD/PLU, Cheshire

Alternative names

We know of no alternate names.

Unit associations

We know of no associations with other units.

Unit history

This unit was part of the following units:

Name	Type	Start	End	Authority
CHESHIRE	Poor Law/Registration County	1850		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 641.
CHESHIRE	Administrative County			Ministry of Health, Persons in Receipt of Poor-Law Relief (England and Wales) (H.M.S.O.)

Boundary changes

This unit was affected by the following changes:

Date	Type of change	Other unit involved	Area transferred	Authority
08 Mar 1867	was reduced to enlarge	CONGLETON RegD/PLU	Middlewich lost the township of Goostrey with Barnshaw to Church Hulme	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)

Lower level units

This unit contained the following units:

Name	Type	Start	End	Authority
MIDDLEWICH	Registration sub-District			1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
NORTHWICH	Registration sub-District			1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
OVER	Registration sub-District			1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
WEAVERHAM	Registration sub-District			1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
ACTON BRIDGE Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 5.
ALLOSTOCK CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 6.
ANDERTON Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 6.
BARNTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 7.
BIRCHES CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 9.
BOSTOCK CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 10.
BYLEY CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 12.
CASTLE NORTHWICH CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1894	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 29.
CLIVE CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1936	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 15.
COGSHALL CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1936	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 15.
COMBERBACH CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 15.
CROWTON Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 16.
CROXTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit		1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 16.
CUDDINGTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 16.
DARNHALL CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 16.
DAVENHAM AP/CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 16.
DELAMERE ExP/CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 17.
EATON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1936	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 18.
EDDISBURY CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1936	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 18.
HARTFORD Ch/CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 20.
HULSE CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 22.
KINDERTON CP	Parish-level Unit	1894	1936	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 22.
KINDERTON CUM HULME CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1894	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 22.
LACH DENNIS CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 23.
LEFTWICH CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1936	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 24.
LITTLE BUDWORTH CP/AP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 11.
LITTLE LEIGH CP/Ch	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 24.
LOSTOCK GRALAM CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 24.
LOW OULTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 30.
MARBURY CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 25.
MARSTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 26.
MARTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 26.
MIDDLEWICH AP/CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 26.
MOORESBARROW CUM PARME CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 27.
MOULTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 27.
NETHER PEOVER Ch/CP	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 30.
NEWHALL CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 28.
NEWTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1894	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 28.
NORTHWICH Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 29.
OAKMERE CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 29.
OCCLESTONE CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 29.
ONSTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 29.
OVER CP/AP	Parish-level Unit		1936	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 30.
RAVENSCROFT CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 32.
RUDHEATH Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 33.
SHIPBROOK CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit		1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 34.
SHURLACH CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit		1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 34.
SPROSTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 35.
STANTHORNE CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 35.
STUBLACH CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 36.
SUTTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 36.
UNNAMED CP	Parish-level Unit	1894	1936	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 39.
UNNAMED CP	Parish-level Unit	1894	1936	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 39.
WALLERSCOAT CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 39.
WEAVER CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1892	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 40.
WEAVERHAM CUM MILTON AP/CP	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 40.
WHARTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1936	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 40.
WHATCROFT CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 40.
WIMBOLDSLEY CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 41.
WINCHAM Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 41.
WINNINGTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1866	1936	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 41.
WITTON CUM TWANBROOKS Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit			1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'.

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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Northwich RegD/PLU through time | Census tables with data for the Poor Law Union/Reg. District, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10154960

Date accessed: 01st November 2024