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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyCheshire 
HundredBroxton 
Poor Law unionGreat Boughton 
Registration districtGreat Boughton1837 - 1869
Registration districtChester1870 - 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:


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.

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