Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

BROXTON

• A township in Malpas Parish, Broxton Hundred (SJ 4853).
• Includes the hamlets of Barnhill, Bolesworth, Brown Knowl, Fullersmoor and Meadow Bank.
• The population was 275 in 1801, 513 in 1851, 543 in 1901 and 471 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Malpas, St. Oswald (C of E). The ancient parish church for Broxton.
• Bickerton, Holy Trinity (C of E). The parish church since 1843.
• Broxton, Methodist Chapel (Primitive).

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Tarvin Rural Sanitary District (1875-94); Tarvin Rural District (1894-1974); Chester (1974-date)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832-67); West Cheshire (1868-85); Eddisbury (1885-1948); Northwich (1949-54); Nantwich (1955-74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Great Boughton (1837-71); Chester (1871-1930)

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Great Boughton (1837-69); Chester (1870-1937); West Cheshire (1937-74);Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974-98); Cheshire West (1998-date)

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