Moulton, Cheshire
Historical Description
Moulton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish, in Davenham parish, Cheshire, 3 miles S of Northwich. There is a post and money order office under Northwich; telegraph office, Davenham. Acreage of township, 475; population, 1143. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. There are extensive salt works, and also a free library. Moulton Hall estate belonged formerly to the Bostock family. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1878. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £'223 with residence. Patron, the Kector of Davenham. The church was built in 1877, and is in the Early English style. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.
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 | Davenham | |
Hundred | Northwich | |
Poor Law union | Northwich |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Moulton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Moulton 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.