Tilston, Cheshire
Historical Description
Tilston, a village, a township, and a parish in Cheshire. The village lies 3 miles NW of Malpas, and has a post and money order office under Malpas; telegraph office, Clutton. The township comprises 799 acres; population, 305. The parish contains also the townships of Garden, Grafton, Horton, and Stretton. Acreage, 3769; population, 651. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Garden Hall, Grafton Hall, and Stretton Hall are the chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £283 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1875. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
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 | Tilston St. Mary | |
Hundred | Broxton | |
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 Tilston from 1837 to 1869 you should search for the Great Boughton Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Tilston from 1870 to 1937 you should search for the Chester Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Tilston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tilston (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Tilston 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.