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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.

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 

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:


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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