Lower Kinnerton, Cheshire
Historical Description
Kinnerton, Lower, a township in Dodleston parish, Cheshire, contiguous to Higher Kinnerton, in Flintshire. Acreage, 537; population, 114. Bridge Hall is an ancient mansion, now a farmhouse, and adjoins a stream which here divides England from Wales. Under the Local Government Act the ecclesiastical parish of Dodleston is divided into two parishes-the townships of Dodleston and Lower Kinnerton forming one parish under the Cheshire County Council; while Higher Kinnerton township is a parish in the district of the Flintshire County Council.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Cheshire | |
| Civil parish | Doddleston | |
| 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 Lower Kinnerton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kinnerton, Lower)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Lower Kinnerton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
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.