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"LEDSHAM, a township in the parish of NESTON, higher division of the hundred of WIRRALL, county palatine of CHESTER, 6¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Chester, containing 74 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Ledsham was a township in Neston ancient parish, Wirral hundred (SJ 3574), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- It includes the hamlets of Badger's Rake (part) and Two Mills (part).
- The population was 56 in 1801, 94 in 1851, 82 in 1901, 116 in 1951, and 88 in 2001.
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| Park Gate Road/Chapel Lane, Ledsham, Presbyterian (Welsh) |
- Wirral (1837-1937)
- West Cheshire (1937-74)
- Chester & Ellesmere Port (1974-98)
- Cheshire West (1998-2007)
- Cheshire (2007-09)
- Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)
- Wirral (1828-1933)
- Chester Castle (1933-74)
- Chester (1974-2001)
- Chester, Ellesmere Port & Neston (2001-12)
- West Cheshire (2012+)
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Ledsham to another place.
- 1933 April 1 — Gained parts of Little Sutton (6 acres, pop. 0 in 1931) and Willaston (60 acres, pop. 34 in 1931)
- 2015 April 1 — Gained part of the unparished area of Ellesmere Port.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ357745 (Lat/Lon: 53.263582, -2.965448), Ledsham which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- 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.
- Wirral Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Wirral Rural District (1894-1933)
- Chester Rural District (1933-74)
- Chester (1974-2009)
- Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)