Place:Grange, Cheshire, England

Grange was an inland township in West Kirby ancient parish, in the [[Place:Wirral Hundred, Cheshire, England|Wirral Hundred of Cheshire, England. It became a civil parish in 1866. It included the hamlets of Caldy Grange and Newton Carr. The population was 10 in 1801, 105 in 1851, 299 in 1901, and 7657 in 1951.

In 1889 it gained the whole of Newton cum Larton (population 66 in 1891) [re-directed here]. In 1894 it lost a section to the new civil parish of Hoylake cum West Kirby (population 17 in 1891), and a further section to Hoylake cum West Kirby in 1915 (53 acres but no population). Finally, in 1933, it gained part of the parish of Saughall Massie (478 acres, pop. 31 in 1931) when Saughall Massie was abolished.

Grange was part of Wirral Rural District from 1894 until 1933. On the abolition of the rural district it became part of Hoylake Urban District.

In the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974 the entire Wirral Peninsula, with the exception of the municipal borough of Ellesmere Port and urban district of Neston at the southern end, became the Metropolitan Borough of the Wirral in the new administrative county of Merseyside.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Grange, Merseyside.

Research Tips

• Diagram of Sanitary Districts in Cheshire showing Civil Parishes 1888 produced by the Ordnance Survey and provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
• An Ordnance Survey map of Cheshire circa 1944 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time
• GENUKI references for Grange
• GENUKI references for Newton-cum-Larton
• A description of Grange from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 (courtesy of A Vision of Britain through Time)