Moston (Chester), Cheshire
Historical Description
Moston, a township in the parish of Chester, St Mary-on-the-Hill, Cheshire, on the Shropshire Union Canal, 1 mile SE of Mollington station on the Birkenhead railway, and 3 miles NNW of Chester. Acreage, 303; population, 49. Moston Hall and The Dale are the chief residences. There is an orphanage for ten children.
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 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Moston (Chester) from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Moston (Chester) 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.