Birtles, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Alderley parish, Cheshire, 4 miles W by N of Macclesfield. Post, money order, and telegraph office, at Chelford under Crewe. Acreage of the township, 599 ; population, 60; of the ecclesiastical parish, 445. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1890, and includes the township of Over Alderley. Birtles Hall is the seat of the Hibbert family. A Roman urn and some other Roman relics have been found. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester; net value, £193. The church was erected in 1840, and was formerly the domestic chapel of Birtles Hall.
