Waverton, Cheshire
Historical Description
Waverton, a township and a parish in Cheshire. The township lies on the Shropshire Union Canal, 4 miles SE of Chester, and has a station on the Chester and the Crewe section of the L. & N.W.R., and a post office under Chester; money order and telegraph office, Christleton. Acreage, 1186; population, 371. The parish contains also Hatton township, and comprises 2651 acres; population of the civil parish, 514; of the ecclesiastical, 507. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Waverton Manor belongs to the Duke of Westminster. There are a steam flour-mill, a coal wharf, and a quarry. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church is Perpendicular, and was restored in 1888. There is a Presbyterian chapel.
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 | Waverton St. Peter | |
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 Waverton from 1837 to 1869 you should search for the Great Boughton Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Waverton from 1870 to 1937 you should search for the Chester Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Waverton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Waverton (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Waverton 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.