• Kingswood was a township in Delamere Parish, Eddisbury Hundred (SJ 5372)—created in 1812 out of the previously extra-parochial area of Delamere Forest—, which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1936 the whole of Kingswood was divided between Kingsley, Manley and Norley civil parishes.
• Included the hamlets of Birchdale, Birch Hill, Castle Hill, Hatchmere, New Pale and Waterloo.
• The population was 109 in 1851, and 248 in 1901.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Delamere, St. Peter (C of E). The parish church since 1812.
• Kingswood, Methodist Chapel. Built in 1891.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

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

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Eddisbury (1885–1948)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Runcorn

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Runcorn (1837–1937)

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