Cheshire

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Cheshire Towns & Parishes

SAIGHTON

• Saighton (pronounced Say-tun) was a township in St. Oswald's Parish, Broxton Hundred (SJ 4359), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Including the hamlets of Hatton Heath (part) and Platt's Rough (part).
• The population was 242 in 1801, 329 in 1851, 308 in 1901, and 312 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Chester, St. Oswald (C of E). The ancient parish church for Saighton.
• Bruera, St. Mary (C of E). The parish church since 1868.
• Saighton Camp, Army Chapel. A chapel to Bruera. Registers of Baptisms 1950–1961 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office (no marriages or burials).
• Saighton, Presbyterian Church. Built in 1857, closed in 1936.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Tarvin Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Tarvin Rural District (1894–1936)
• Chester Rural District (1936–74)
• Chester (1974–2009)
• Cheshire West and Chester (2009+)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Eddisbury (1885–1948)
• Chester (1948–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Great Boughton (1837–71)
• Tarvin (1871–1930)

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Great Boughton (1837–69)
• Chester (1870–1937)
• West Cheshire (1937–74)
• Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974–98)
• Cheshire West (1998+)

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