Rowton, Cheshire
Historical Description
Rowton, a village and a township in Christleton parish, Cheshire, on the Shropshire Union Canal, 3½ miles SE by E of Chester. Post town, Chester; money order and telegraph office, Christleton. Acreage, 591; population, 181. Rowton Hall and Rowton Grange are the chief residences. Rowton Moor was the scene of an important battle in 1645 between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Registration district | Great Boughton | 1837 - 1869 |
Registration district | Chester | 1870 - 1937 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Rowton 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.