Christleton, Cheshire
Historical Description
Christleton, a township and a parish in Cheshire. The township lies on the Shropshire Union Canal, 2g- miles ESE of Chester, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 1502; population, 902. There-is a workmen's club, founded in 1871. The parish includes also the townships of Littleton, Rowton, Cotton Edmunds, and Cotton Abbots. Acreage, 3281; population of the civil parish, 1257; of the ecclesiastical, 1264. Christleton Hall is the seat of the Ince family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester; net value, £460 with residence. The church was restored in 1738 and again in 1877. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels, and four alms-houses.
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 | Christleton St. James | |
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 Christleton from 1837 to 1869 you should search for the Great Boughton Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Christleton from 1870 to 1937 you should search for the Chester Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Christleton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Christleton (St. James))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Christleton 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.