Blacon cum Crabhall, Cheshire
Historical Description
Blacon-cum-Crabhall, a township in the parish of Holy Trinity Chester, Cheshire. Blacon is 1½ mile W of Chester, and has a station on the Cheshire lines and M.S. & L. Joint railway. Crabhall is 2 miles NW of Chester. Acreage, 1077; population, 261.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cheshire | |
Civil parish | Holy Trinity Chester | |
Hundred | Wirrall | |
Poor Law union | Great Boughton | |
Registration district | Great Boughton | 1837 - 1869 |
Registration district | Chester | 1870 - 1936 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Blacon cum Crabhall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blacon, with Crab-wall)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Blacon cum Crabhall 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.