Higher Kinnerton, Flintshire

Historical Description

Kinnerton, Higher, a township in Dodleston parish, Flintshire, contiguous to Cheshire, 6 miles SW by W of Chester. It has a station on the Chester and Denbigh branch of the L. & N.W.R., and a post office under Chester; money order office, Chester; telegraph office, Caergwrle. Acreage, 1825; population, 438. There is a new church (All Saints) and a Primitive Methodist chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Flintshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Higher Kinnerton 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 newspapers online:

• Western Mail
• Baner ac Amserau Cymru
• The Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser
• The North Wales Chronicle