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"BOUGHTON (GREAT), a township in that part of the parish of ALDFORD which is in the lower division of the hundred of BROXTON, county palatine of CHESTER, l¼ mile (E.) from Chester, containing 911 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Great Boughton (pronounced Baw-tun) was a township in St. Oswald's ancient parish, Broxton hundred (SJ 4266), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- It includes the hamlets of Boughton Heath, Butterbache (part), Piper's Ash (part), Tarvin Bridge and Vicars Cross (part only until 2015).
- The population was 544 in 1801, 1164 in 1851, 1034 in 1901, 3164 in 1951, and 8682 in 2001.
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- Great Boughton (1837-69)
- Chester (1870-1937)
- West Cheshire (1937-74)
- Chester & Ellesmere Port (1974-98)
- Cheshire West (1998-2007)
- Cheshire (2007-09)
- Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)
- Broxton (1828-71)
- Chester Castle (1871-1974)
- Chester (1974-2001)
- Chester, Ellesmere Port & Neston (2001-12)
- West Cheshire (2012+)
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Great Boughton to another place.
- 1884 — Lost the part in Chester Municipal Borough to Chester (pop. 1643 in 1881)
- 1936 April 1 — Gained parts of Chester (2 acres, pop. 0 in 1931) and Hoole (18 acres, pop. 126 in 1931), and lost parts to Chester (48 acres, pop. 954 in 1931) and Hoole (5 acres, pop. 0 in 1931)
- 2015 April 1 — Lost parts to Christleton and Guilden Sutton, and gained part of Littleton.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ414667 (Lat/Lon: 53.194139, -2.878568), Great Boughton which are provided by:
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- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Chester Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Chester Rural District (1894-1974)
- Chester (1974-2009)
- Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)