• Oakmere was a township in Delamere Parish, Eddisbury Hundred (SJ 5769)—created in 1812 from the extra-parochial area of Delamere Forest— which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Including the hamlets of Blakemere, Crabtree Green, Gallowsclough, Hart Hill Bank, Plover's Moss and Sandy Brow (part).
• The population was 252 in 1851, 370 in 1901, and 467 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Delamere, St. Peter (C of E). The parish church since 1812.
• Sandiway, St John the Evangelist (C of E). The parish church for part of Oakmere since 1935.
• Oakmere, Methodist Church.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Northwich Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Northwich Rural District (1894–1974)
• Vale Royal (1974–2009)
• Cheshire West and Chester (2009+)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Eddisbury (1885–1948)
• Northwich (1948–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Northwich

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Northwich (1837–1974)
• Vale Royal (1974–98)
• Cheshire Central (1998–2009)
• Cheshire West (2009+)

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