• Upton was a township in Prestbury Parish, Macclesfield Hundred (SJ 9075), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1936 the whole of Upton was added to Macclesfield civil parish.
• The population was 56 in 1801, 111 in 1851, and 224 in 1901.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Prestbury, St. Peter (C of E). The ancient parish church for Upton.
• Upton Priory, Church of the Resurrection (C of E). Founded 1964 as a chapel to Prestbury, becoming the parish church for Upton in 1968. Registers of Baptisms from 1964, and Marriages from 1969 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

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

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

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

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Macclesfield

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Macclesfield (1837–1937)

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