• Chorley was a township in Wrenbury Parish, Nantwich Hundred (SJ 5750), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• The population was 126 in 1801, 173 in 1851, 132 in 1901, and 167 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Wrenbury, St. Margaret (C of E). The ancient parish for Chorley.
• Bickley, St. Wenefride (C of E). The parish church from 1893.
• Chorley, Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Founded 1873 (with burial ground).

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Nantwich Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Nantwich Rural District (1894–1974)
• Crewe & Nantwich (1974–2009)
• Cheshire East (2009+)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Eddisbury (1885–1948)
• Crewe (1949–54)
• Nantwich (1955–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Nantwich

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Nantwich (1837–1937)
• Crewe (1937–74)
• Congleton and Crewe (1974–88)
• South Cheshire (1988–98)
• Cheshire Central (1998+)

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