| Description | Pre 1835 corporation: borough charters, assembly minutes, freemen's roll, accounts, inclsoure awards and maps, commissioners of Police records, Macclesfield Common plans.
Clerk, Council and Committe: Council and committee minutes, agenda and reports; sub-committee minutes, agenda and reports; declartion books; attendance registers; standing orders; notices of motion; letter books; policy extracts; stock books.
Clerk Administration: Corporation manuals; newscuttings; clerk's correspondence files; Burgess rolls; registers of county electors; local acts; clearance orders; corporation bills; letter books; reports; military tribunal letter books; papers re main drainage works; subject files; photograph albums; corontaion committee papers; election commission report; register of licenses for employment of children in entertainment.
Clerk Legal: seal order books; schedule of deeds; specimen of common seal; conditions of sale.
Clerk Licensing and Byelaws: byelaws; register of licensed brokers; papers re New Fairs.
Treasurer: general and committee ledgers; accounts; abstracts of accounts; registers of policies of insurance; wage ledgers; Overseer's accounts.
Public Health Inspector: Sanitary Inspector report books; canal boat records; tuberculosis record of cases; registers of inspections; local board of health annual reports; lodging house records; register of dwelling houses; newspaper cuttings; day or complaint book; register of removal of railings and gates; letter book; report on main drainage treatment works extension.
Libraries and museums: papers regarding exhibits, inventories and appointments.
Inspector of Weights and Measures: reports; notebooks; certfiicates of verification; licenses; market department letter books; registers of traders; stall rents; cash books.
Burial Board: cash books; register if internments; account books; register of flowering and trimming graves; cemetery regulations and fees; programme of service; notice re internments.
Rating Officer: draft valuation lists; valuation lists; valuation amendments; general rate books; poor rate books; Mottram St Andrews Overseers records.
Registration Officer: letter book; voting papers.
Mayor of Macclesfield: letter books, scrapbooks.
Surveyor: indexes to building plans; building plan registers; building control plans; other plans.
Township and Civil Parishes: enclosure maps, tithe maps, tithe apportionments, township maps. |
| Administrative History | Macclesfield constituted a portion of the royal demesne of the earls of Mercia who held a court there for the ancient hundred of Hamestan and it is mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086) as one of the seats of Earl Edwin. It was made a borough by Randle or Ranulph, earl of Chester (1181-1230) and it then had 120 burgesses. In 1260-1261, Prince Edward , earl of Chester granted to the burgesses a charter of privileges, which was confirmed in 1334, 1390, 1465 and 1564. Elizabeth's charter of 1564 made the town a corporate body. This charter was confirmed in 1678 and 1684.
Under the 1832 Reform Act, the most populous part of the adjoining townships of Sutton and Hurdsfield were added to form a parliamentary borough returning two members of parliament and under the Municipal Corporation Act 1835, the borough was divided into six wards. The 1868 Boundary Act enlarged the borough to include part of Tytherington and under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, parliamentary representation merged into that of the Macclesfield division of the county.
By the County of Chester Review Order 1936, parts of the parishes of Fallibroome, Gawsworth, Upton, Hurdsfield, Tytherington and Sutton were added to the borough.
In April 1974, the former municipal borough amalgamated with Alderley Edge, Bollington, Knutsford and Wilmslow urban districts and Bucklow, Disley and Macclesfield rural districts to form the new Macclesfield Borough Council. |