History of Governance in Malpas

View of from the Goodmoors of St Oswald's Church watching over the village.

1894 to 1936

There has been a Parish Council in Malpas since Parish Councils were formed in 1894.

Prior to that, management of the Town issues were conducted through Vestry Meetings, held in St Oswald's Church. They ruled on a mixture of both church and community issues.

Malpas was, from 1894 to 1936, a rural district in the administrative county of Cheshire, England.
The district was named after the town of Malpas.
Malpas Rural District Council (RDC) were responsible for building a number of houses in the local area.
Examples can be seen at Sunnyside and on Well Avenue.

Malpas RDC

Malpas Rural District Council, like Malpas Parish Council, had been set up under the 1894 Local Government Act, which established
Rural District and Parish Councils for the first time.

Two new local Rural District Councils were created by the division of the existing Whitchurch Rural Sanitary District.

The Cheshire civil parishes (formerly known as townships) became Malpas Rural District, while the remaining parishes in
Shropshire became Whitchurch Rural District.

Malpas RDC served a fairly extensive area, consisting of the following civil parishes:

Agden
Bickley
Bradley
Chidlow
Chorlton
Cuddington
Duckington
Edge
Hampton
Larkton
Macefen
Malpas
Marbury cum Quoisley
Newton by Malpas
Norbury
Oldcastle
Overton
Stockton
Threapwood
Tushingham cum Grindley
Wigland
Wirswall
Wychough

Abolition
The district was abolished in 1936 under a county review order.

Its area was divided between two neighbouring rural districts.
The greater part passed to Tarvin Rural District and the remainder (Marbury cum Quoisley, Norbury and Wirswall parishes) going to Nantwich Rural District.

1936 to 1974 – Tarvin RDC

In 1936 the boundaries of the rural districts were substantially altered under a Cheshire County review order.
Tarvin RDC lost large parts to Chester RDC, but also absorbed most of the disbanded Malpas Rural District.

The following parishes which made up the Malpas Rural District were moved under the management of Tarvin RDC.

Agden
Bickley
Bradley
Chidlow
Chorlton
Cuddington
Duckington
Edge
Hampton
Larkton
Macefen
Malpas
Newton by Malpas
Oldcastle
Overton
Stockton
Threapwood
Tushingham cum Grindley
Wigland
Wychough

This constituted some 16,712 acres (67.63 km2) in all.

1974 – 2009 – Chester City Council

In 1974 Tarvin RDC was merged in with Chester District Council which soon afterwards changed its name to Chester City Council

2009 – Present – Cheshire West and Chester

Chester City Council was merged with Vale Royal and Ellesmere Port & Neston Councils to form Cheshire West & Chester Council.
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2015

Following a governance review, the old parishes of, Newton by Malpas, Oldcastle, Overton, Stockton, Wychough and parts of Bradley and No Mans Heath were merged into the Malpas Parish.