Moreton cum Alcumlow is a small

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, England. In the 2021 census it had a population of 155. The main settlement in the parish is the small village of Ackers Crossing. The parish also includes Alcumlow Hall and

Great Moreton Hall Great Moreton Hall is a former English country house, country house in Moreton cum Alcumlow near Congleton, in Cheshire, England, less than a mile (1.6 km) from its better-known near namesake Little Moreton Hall. Designed by Edward Blore, i ...

. (

Little Moreton Hall Little Moreton Hall, also known as Old Moreton Hall, is a moated timber framing, half-timbered manor house south-west of Congleton in Cheshire, England. The earliest parts of the house were built for the prosperous Cheshire landowner William ...

is in the adjacent civil parish of

Odd Rode Odd Rode is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It borders the Staffordshire parish of Kidsgrove. Of particular note in the area is Rode Hall, seat of the Wilbraham family. ...

Governance

There are two tiers of local government covering Moreton cum Alcumlow, at parish and

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level: Newbold Astbury cum Moreton Parish Council, and

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. The parish council is a

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, also covering the neighbouring parish of

Newbold Astbury Astbury is a village in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England. It lies south-west of the town of Congleton on the A34 road (England), A34 road, which forms one side of the village green. The parish of Astbury historically covered a large area, also ...

Administrative history

Moreton cum Alcumlow was historically one of twelve

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within the

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, and formed part of the

Northwich hundred Northwich is a market town and civil parish in the Cheshire West and Chester borough of Cheshire, England. It lies on the Cheshire Plain, at the confluence of the rivers Weaver and Dane, east of Chester, south of Warrington and south of Manc ...

of Cheshire. From the 17th century onwards, parishes were gradually given various civil functions under the

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, in addition to their original ecclesiastical functions. In some cases, including Astbury, the civil functions were exercised by each township separately rather than the parish as a whole. In 1866, the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws, and so Moreton cum Alcumlow became a

. The parish was too small to have a parish council when they were established in 1894, so had a

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instead. It was placed under a grouped parish council with neighbouring Newbold Astbury in 1975.

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