Description
Carrington, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Bowdon parish, Cheshire, on the Mersey, 1 mile N of Partington station on the Cheshire Lines railway, 5 miles NW of Altrincham, and 8 1/2 SW of Manchester, with a post office under Manchester; money order and telegraph office, Flixton. Acreage, 2337; population, 568. The corporation of Manchester own extensive sewage farms and market gardens here. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1886. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £280. The church was erected in 1759. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
