Cheadle and Gatley Urban District

[2] The 1894 Act also said that civil parishes (including townships such as Cheadle and Stockport Etchells) could no longer straddle district or borough boundaries.

Cheadle parish was therefore reduced to just cover the area within the urban district.

The urban district then contained the two civil parishes of Cheadle and Stockport Etchells until 1930, when they were merged into a single parish called Cheadle and Gatley covering the whole urban district.

[4] Cheadle and Gatley Urban District was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.

[5] Between 2004 and 2023 there was a Cheadle and Gatley electoral ward, which covered a smaller area than the pre-1974 urban district.