• Davenport was a township in Astbury Parish, Northwich Hundred (SJ 8065), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1936 the whole of Davenport was added to Brereton civil parish.
• The population was 89 in 1801, 111 in 1851, and 80 in 1901.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Astbury, St. Mary (C of E). The ancient parish church for Davenport.
• Swettenham, St. Peter (C of E). The parish church since 1880.
• Davenport, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1834.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Congleton Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Congleton Rural District (1894–1936).

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• Mid Cheshire (1868–85)
• Knutsford (1885–1974)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Congleton

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

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

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