Saighton
SAIGHTON, a township, in the chapelry of Churton-Heath, parish of St. Oswald, Chester, union of Great Boughton, Lower division of the hundred of Broxton, S. division of the county of Chester, 4½ miles (S. E.) from Chester; containing 313 inhabitants. The township comprises 1675 acres, of which the soil is clay, with some light land. The Chester and Crewe railway passes through it. A rent-charge of £90 has been awarded as a commutation for the vicarial tithes, and there is a glebe of 19¼ acres.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.