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enters the county at Whaley Bridge, and passing by Marple, Romiley, Bredbury, and Hyde, crosses the Tame at Dukinfield, and leaves the county. This and the Macclcs­ field Canal are now leased to the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Compy.

ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL DIVISIONS.-Formerly this was one of the largest dioceseS in the kingdom, but on the creation of the See of Manchester, a portion was added to that diocese. It now consists of the archdeaconries of Cheste1· and Liverpool, the former containing the deaneries of , :FrC?dsham (East and West.), , Wich Millbankor Namptwich, Malpas, and , and the latter including those of War­ rington, (Liverpool North)'; Warrington (Liverpool South), Warrington (Wigan), and Wyrehall or Wirrall, the whol~ forming a portion of the Archbishopric of York.

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISIONS IN THE COUNTY, WITH THE TOWNSHIPS COMPRISED THEREIN.

ALTRINCHAM DIVISION-TowNsHIPS. • Agden • Carrington Partington Altrincham Dunham Massey Rostherne Ashley Hale Sale Ashton-upon-Mersey High Leigh Thelwall Baguley Timperley Millington Warburton Bowdon

• BROXTON DIVISION-TowNSHIP8• Agden Cuddington Stockton Ducking ton Stretton Edge Barton Edgerley Bickley Egerton -cum-Grindley Bradley Farndon Wichhaugh Broxton Grafton Bickerton Hampton Buerton Bulkeley Handley Churton 'iHeath Harthill Caldecot Horton • Carden King's Marsh Chidlow Golborn Bellow Cholmondeley Golborn David Malpas Hatton Chorlton Newton-by-Malpas Huxley ' Churton-by-Farndon Oldcastle Coddington Overton N ewton-by- Churton-by-Aldford Church Tattenhall Clutton Waverton