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Chester Rural District
Chester was a rural district of Cheshire, England, from 1894 to 1974. It was located near the city and county borough of Chester but did not include it. The district saw various boundary changes throughout its life. It included the small civil parish of Chester Castle (parish), Chester Castle, an exclave of the rural district within the boundaries of the county borough of Chester. Creation The district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as the successor to Chester Rural Sanitary District. It initially consisted of the following civil parishes: ‡ In 1901 the two parishes were merged to form a single civil parish of Mollington, Cheshire, Mollington. † In 1910 the parish of Great Stanney was removed from the rural district and became part of an enlarged Ellesmere Port and Whitby Urban District. ¶ In 1933 the parish of Ince and part of Thornton le Moors were added to an enlarged Ellesmere Port Urban district. 1936 boundary changes In 1936 the boundaries of the ...
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Sanitary District
Sanitary districts were established in England and Wales in 1872 and in Ireland in 1878. The districts were of two types, based on existing structures: *Urban sanitary districts in towns with existing local government bodies *Rural sanitary districts in the remaining rural areas of poor law unions. Each district was governed by a sanitary authority and was responsible for various public health matters such as providing clean drinking water, sewers, street cleaning, and clearing slum housing. In England and Wales, both rural and urban sanitary districts were replaced in 1894 by the Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) by the more general rural districts and urban districts. A similar reform was carried out in Ireland in 1899 by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. England and Wales Sanitary districts were formed under the terms of the Public Health Act 1872 ( 35 & 36 Vict. c. 79). Instead of creating new bodies, existing authorities were given additional res ...
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Bridge Trafford
Bridge Trafford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Mickle Trafford and District, in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England. It lies to the north of Mickle Trafford on the A56 road, and is north-east of Chester. Bridge Trafford was formerly a separate civil parish until 2015. History It is believed that the Roman road from Chester to Wilderspool (now part of Warrington) passed through the parish. In 1991 a Roman bronze brooch was found in the parish. Immediately to the south of the hamlet the River Gowy is crossed by Trafford Bridge. A stone bridge was first built here in 1410 and there was probably a wooden bridge before that. After the Civil War the bridge needed repairs and these were carried out in 1648. Governance There are two tiers of local government covering Bridge Trafford, at parish and unitary authority level: Mickle Trafford and District Parish Council, and Cheshire West and Chester Council. The parish council generally meets at the village hall in Mickle ...
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Great Saughall
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Great Boughton
Great Boughton is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It includes the villages of Boughton Heath and Vicars Cross. It had a population of 2,627 according to the 2011 census. It is sometimes confused with the separate settlement of Boughton, which lies just to the west, within the boundaries of the city of Chester. In the 1870s, Great Boughton was described as: : a township and a district in Cheshire. The township is in St. Oswald parish, and partly within Chester city; and lies on the Chester and Crewe railway, 1 mile E of Chester. Great Boughton is a parish that comprises the villages of Boughton Heath, Caldy Valley, Vicars Cross and a section of Huntington. Attractions include the Sandy Lane Aqua Park with ferry to Meadows, Caldy Nature Reserve and Boughton Hall Cricket Club. Great Boughton came into the news when a controversial development at the disused Saighton Camp caused the remodellin ...
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Elton, Cheshire
Elton is a village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, northeast of Chester, between Helsby and Ellesmere Port, near the River Mersey. Its proximity to the Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal have contributed to its industrial character. The village is on the north-western edge of the Cheshire Plain, from Stanlow Refinery. At the 2011 census, the village had a population of 3,586. History The name of the village was recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Eltone'', derived from the words ''ēl'' and ''tūn'', meaning "eel farm or settlement''. Elton was a township within the Thornton parish of the Eddisbury Hundred. It became a civil parish in 1866. The population was recorded at 167 in 1801, 216 in 1851, 190 in 1901, 410 in 1951 and rising to 3,528 by 2001. The village was briefly in the media spotlight in 1997 when one of its residents, Louise Woodward, went on trial for murder in the USA. Governance The unitary authority of Cheshire West an ...
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Eccleston, Cheshire
Eccleston is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Eaton and Eccleston, in the borough of Cheshire West and Chester, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village is approximately to the south of the city of Chester, near to the River Dee. The village is situated on the estate of the Duke of Westminster who maintains his ancestral home at nearby Eaton Hall. According to the 2001 census, the population of the parish was 184. The population of the civil parish was recorded as 246 in the 2011 census. History It is believed that the name of the village derives from the Primitive Welsh ''eglẹ̄s'' (a church) and the Old English ''tūn'' (a settlement, farmstead or estate). The village, mentioned as ''Eclestone'' in the Domesday Book of 1086, was on a Roman road to Chester. The settlement consisted of seven households (four villagers, one smallholder and two slaves) on land under the ownership of Gilbert de Venables ('Gilbert the hunter'). ...
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Eaton, Chester
Eaton is a former civil parish, now in the parishes of Eaton and Eccleston and Poulton and Pulford, within the borough of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. It had a population of 51 in 2001. It is most notable for containing Eaton Hall, home of the Duke of Westminster. Eaton was formerly a township in the parish of Eccleston, in 1866 Eaton became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 2015 the parish was merged with the adjacent parish Eccleston to form a new combined parish, "Eaton and Eccleston"; because of minor boundary changes, a small part also went to Poulton and Pulford. Governance Eaton is represented by the Constituency of the Chester South and Eddisbury in the UK House of Commons. It is represented on Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council which holds its meetings at Chester Town Hall. Since 2015 local government in Eaton has been divided between two civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administra ...
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Dunham On The Hill
Dunham-on-the-Hill is a village and former civil parishes in England, civil parish, now in the parish of Dunham-on-the-Hill and Hapsford, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester, and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is on the A56 road, approximately from Helsby and from Chester. The village is above sea level, south west of Helsby Hill. Originally a small hamlet, it has gradually enlarged over the twentieth century, although the village retains a semi-rural character. Council housing was built shortly after the World War II, Second World War behind ‘The Wheatsheaf' pub, with many of these properties now owner occupied. Other in-fill building in the village has increased the population of the parish from fewer than 300 in the early 1900s to 534 recorded in the 2001 United Kingdom census, 2001 census. This decreased slightly to 501 at the time of the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 census. History The name Dunham-on-the-Hill means "hill village ...
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Dodleston
Dodleston is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village is situated to the south west of Chester, very close to the England–Wales border. The civil parish includes Balderton, Cheshire, Balderton, Gorstella, Lower Kinnerton and Rough Hill. It is one of the three old Cheshire parishes which are situated on the Flintshire side of the River Dee, Wales, River Dee. Dodleston has a village shop with post office, village hall, village green, a Church of England, C of E primary school, the Listed building#England and Wales, Grade II listed St Mary's Church, Dodleston, St Mary's Church and the Grade II listed 'Red Lion' pub. It also contains some good examples of buildings by the 19th-century architect John Douglas (English architect), John Douglas. At the 2001 United Kingdom Census, 2001 census, the population of Dodleston was 777, reducing to 715 at the 2011 ...
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Croughton, Cheshire
Croughton is a hamlet and civil parish on the outskirts and 3.5 miles (5.7 km) north of the city of Chester, and part of the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire. The Shropshire Union Canal runs through Croughton. History Croughton is a settlement in St. Oswald's ancient parish, which became a civil parish in 1866. The population was 33 in 1801 and 22 in 1851, these dates being the earliest in the census for the United Kingdom. There is currently no parish council, the civil parish being represented by one councillor on Little Stanney and District Parish Council. The old parishes were formed at a time when there was little difference between the Church and the State, and a parish such as Croughton usually formed around a village or other small settlement, centred on the parish church. The name "Croughton" means bend in the water. Croughton can be found in the Domesday Book. It has one recorded gazetteer descriptive entry, wri ...
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Claverton, Cheshire
Claverton is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Eaton and Eccleston, in the borough of Cheshire West and Chester and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. In 2001 it had a population of 7. The parish included the site of The King's School. In 1086, Claverton was recorded in the Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ... as ''Cleventone''. The landowner was Hugh FitzOsbern. With a population of 21 households, it was amongst the largest 40% of settlements recorded in the census. Throughout the nineteenth century the population was recorded as 0. The ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described Claverton as "an uninhabited extra-parochial tract in Great Boughton district". In 1858 Claverton became a separate civil parish, on 1 April ...
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Christleton
Christleton is a village and civil parish on the outskirts of Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The Shropshire Union Canal (originally Chester Canal) passes through the village. The 2001 census recorded a population for the entire civil parish of 2,112, reducing to 2,053 in the 2011 census. Christleton was named "one of the best places to live" in Cheshire and the North West by The Sunday Times in 2022 and again in 2024. History The likely meaning of the name Christleton is "Christians' farm or settlement", derived from the Old English ''cristen'' (a Christian) - ''tūn'' (a settlement, enclosure or farmstead). Its history can be traced with certainty to the Domesday Book, which contains an entry for ''Christetone'', though there is evidence of earlier occupation. By 1086, the land was under the ownership of Robert FitzHugh (son of Hugh Lupus) and comprised 23 households: twelve villagers, fiv ...
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