Shotwick, Cheshire
Historical Description
Shotwick, a township and a parish in Cheshire. The township lies 3½ miles WSW of Ledsham station on the Birkenhead railway, and 7 NW of Chester. Post town, Neston, under Chester; money order and telegraph office, Great Saughall. Acreage, 566; population, 77. The parish contains also the townships of Woodbank, Little Sanghall, and Great Saughall. Acreage, 2446; population, 961. Great Saughall has a parish council of nine members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £210 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Chester. The church is partly Norman, chiefly Early English, and the chancel was restored in 1857. The rectory of Capenhurst is a separate benefice. There are Baptist, Presbyterian, and Primitive Methodist chapels at Great Sanghall.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cheshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Shotwick St. Michael | |
Hundred | Wirrall | |
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.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Shotwick from 1837 to 1869 you should search for the Great Boughton Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Shotwick from 1870 to 1937 you should search for the Chester Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Shotwick from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shotwick (St. Michael))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Shotwick 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.