• Great Warford was a township in Alderley Parish, Macclesfield Hundred (SJ 8177), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Including the hamlets of Dean Green, Gatley Green, Monks Heath and Soss Moss.
• The population was 287 in 1801, 348 in 1851, 394 in 1901, and 1035 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Alderley, St. Mary (C of E). The ancient parish church for Great Warford.
• Great Warford, Baptist Chapel. Registers start in 1757.
• Great Warford, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built in 1843, closed in 1963. Registers of baptisms 1859–1961 are at the Cheshire Record Office.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Macclesfield Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Macclesfield Rural District (1894–1974)
• Macclesfield (1974–2009)
• Cheshire East (2009+)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• North Cheshire (1832–67)
• East Cheshire (1868–85)
• Knutsford (1885–1948)
• Macclesfield (1949–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Macclesfield

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Macclesfield (1837–1998)
• Cheshire East (1998+)

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