A township in Aldford parish, Broxton Hundred (SJ 4853).
The population was 331 in 1801, 521 in 1851, 113 in 1901 and 96 in 1951.
CHURCHES AND CHAPELS
Aldford, St. John the Baptist (C of E). An ancient parish church, serving the townships of Aldford, Buerton, Churton by Aldford and Edgerley. The church was rebuilt in 1866. Registers of baptisms 1639-1919, marriages 1641-2002 and
burials 1639-1858 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office, where Bishop's Transcripts survive from 1599.
Aldford, Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Built 1891, closed 1979. Registers 1963-1974 are at the CRO.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS
Tarvin Rural Sanitary District (1875-94); Tarvin Rural District (1894-1936); Chester Rural District (1936-74); Chester (1974-date)
ELECTORAL DISTRICTS
South Cheshire (1832-67); West Cheshire (1868-85); Eddisbury (1885-1948); Chester (1949-74)
POOR-LAW UNIONS
Great Boughton (1837-71); Tarvin (1871-1930)
REGISTRATION DISTRICTS
Great Boughton (1837-69); Chester (1870-1937); West Cheshire (1937-74); Chester & Ellesmere Port (1974-98); Cheshire West (1998-date)
