• Wirswall was a township in Whitchurch Parish, Nantwich Hundred (SJ 5444), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Including the hamlets of Bradeley Green, Wicksted and Willey Moor (part).
• The population was 103 in 1801, 83 in 1851, 138 in 1901, and 169 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Whitchurch, St. Alkmund (C of E). An ancient parish, mainly in the county of Shropshire, but including the township of Wirswall in Cheshire.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Whitchurch Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Malpas Rural District (1894–1936), Nantwich Rural District (1894–74)
• Crewe & Nantwich (1974–2009)
• Cheshire East (2009+)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Eddisbury (1885–1948)
• Crewe (1949–54)
• Nantwich (1955–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Nantwich (1837–53)
• Whitchurch (1853–1930)

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Nantwich (1837–53)
• Whitchurch (1853–1937)
• Crewe (1937–74)
• Congleton and Crewe (1974=88)
• South Cheshire (1988–98)
• Cheshire Central (1998+)

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