Great Boughton, Cheshire
Historical Description
Boughton, Great, a village and a township in St Oswald parish, Cheshire, and partly within Chester city, 1 mile E of Chester, under which it has a post and money order office (T.S.O.) Acreage of township, 723; population, 739. Tarvin Union Workhouse is in this township. Boughton Hall has been in the possession of the Cnrrie family for generations, and is a good 17th century mansion.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cheshire | |
Hundred | Broxton | |
Poor Law union | Great Boughton | |
Registration district | Great Boughton | 1837 - 1869 |
Registration district | Chester | 1870 - 1937 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Great Boughton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Boughton, Great)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cheshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.