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Ashton, Cheshire

Historical Description

Ashton, a township and a village, and an ecclesiastical parish, in Tarvin parish, Cheshire. The township lies near Delamere Forest, 1½ mile SW of Mouldsworth station on the Cheshire Lines railway system, 2½ miles N by E of Tarvin, and 7 NE of Chester, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Kelsall. Acreage, 1324; population, 367. The ecclesiastical parish (population, 589) is called Ashton Hayes, and was constituted in 1849. It includes also the townships of Horton-cum-Peele and Mouldsworth. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; value, nominally £160 with residence. Patrons, Trustees. The church is modern, in the Perpendicular style. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient CountyCheshire 
Civil parishTarvin 
HundredEddisbury 
Poor Law unionGreat Boughton 
Registration districtGreat Boughton1837 - 1869
Registration districtChester1870 - 1937

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


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ashton from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Ashton are available from a number of sites:


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.

CountyCheshire West and Chester
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtCH3
Post TownChester

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