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Challenging address

Sent by Bray to Mr Holland, The Only Occupier of the township, Birches, Cheshire on 23rd Febrary 1900.

The card was returned endorsed with the statement "Insufficiently addressed".

"BIRCHES, a township in that part of the parish of GREAT BUDWORTH which is in the hundred of NORTHWICH, county palatine of CHESTER, 3¼ miles (E. S. E.) from Northwich, containing 8 inhabitants. Mrs. Elizabeth Dobson, about 1695, assigned an estate here in trust for the education of two boys, one to be the son of a counsellor, and the other the son of a divine of the church of England." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]

Birches was a township in Witton Chapelry of Great Budworth ancient parish, Northwich hundred (SJ 7072), which became a civil parish in 1866.
The civil parish was abolished in 1892, to become part of Lach Dennis.
The population was 13 in 1801, 8 in 1851, and 6 in 1901.

Source: https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CHS/Birches

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