Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

GREAT BOUGHTON

• Great Boughton (pronounced Baw-tun) was a township in St. Oswald's Parish, Broxton Hundred (SJ 4266). In 1936 part of the civil parish was transferred to Chester, and part of Hoole civil parish was added.
• Includes the hamlets of Boughton Heath, Butterbache (part), Piper's Ash (part), Tarvin Bridge and Vicars Cross (part).
• The population was 544 in 1801, 1164 in 1851, 1034 in 1901 and 3164 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Chester, St. Oswald (C of E). The ancient parish church for Great Boughton.
• Chester, St. Paul (C of E). The parish church for most of Great Boughton since 1846.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

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

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• Chester (1832-1974)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

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

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

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

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