• Claughton cum Grange was a township in Bidston Parish, Wirral Hundred (SJ 3089, which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1898 the whole of Claughton cum Grange was added to Birkenhead. 
• Including the hamlets of Birkenhead Park and Flaybrick.
• The population was 67 in 1801 and 714 in 1851.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Bidston, St. Oswald (C of E). The ancient parish church for most of Claughton cum Grange.
• Woodchurch, Holy Cross (C of E). The ancient parish church for a small part of Claughton cum Grange.
• Claughton, Christ Church (C of E), Christ Church Road. Built as a chapel to Bidston in 1849, becoming the parish church for parts of Claughton cum Grange and Birkenhead. Registers of B aptisms 1854–1963 and Marriages 1854–1961 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.
• Oxton, St Saviour (C of E). The parish church for part of Claughton since 1851.
• Claughton, St. Michael & All Angels (C of E). Built in 1858 as a chapel to Christ Church, becoming the parish church for parts of Claughton cum Grange and Tranmere in 1912; closed in 1958. Registers of Baptisms 1898–1958 and Marriages 1898–1958 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.
• Claughton, Friends' Meeting House (Quakers). Park Road South/Slater Street. Founded 1836.
• Claughton, Trinity Presbyterian Church (C of E), Beresford Road. Founded 1863, Built in 1866.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Wirral Rural Sanitary District (1875–77)
• Birkenhead Urban Sanitary District (1877–1894)
• Birkenhead Municipal Borough (1877–89)
• Birkenhead County Borough (1889–98).

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–54)
• Birkenhead (1854–98)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Wirral (1836–61)
• Birkenhead (1861–98)

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Wirral (1837–61)
• Birkenhead (1861–98)

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