GENUKI: Grange, Cheshire (original) (raw)

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"GRANGE, a township in the parish of WEST KIRBY, lower division of the hundred of WIRRALL, county palatine of CHESTER, 8½ miles (N. W. by N.) from Great Neston, containing 125 inhabitants. A school is supported by annual subscriptions amounting to about £30." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]

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• Grange was a township in West Kirby ancient parish, Wirral hundred (SJ 2387), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Since 1974 it has been an unparished area in the county of Merseyside.
• It includes the hamlets of Caldy Grange and Newton Carr.
• The population was 10 in 1801, 105 in 1851, 299 in 1901, and 7657 in 1951.

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