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Blacon cum Crabwall
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"BLACON, a township, joint with Crabhall, in that part of the parish of HOLY TRINITY CHESTER, which is in the higher division of the hundred of WIRRALL, county palatine of CHESTER, 2 miles (W. N. W.) from Chester, containing, with Crabhall, 75 inhabitants. The Ellesmere canal passes in the vicinity." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
"CRABHALL, a township, joint with Blacon, in that part of the parish of HOLY TRINITY CHESTER, which is in the higher division of the hundred of WIRRALL, county palatine of CHESTER, 2½ miles (N. W. by N.) from Chester. The population is returned with Blacon." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Blacon cum Crabwall (or Blacon with Crabwall) was a township in the parishes of Chester: Holy Trinity and Chester: St. Oswald, Wirral hundred (SJ 3767), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- The civil parish was abolished in 1936 to become parts of Chester and Mollington.
- It included the hamlets of Abbotts Mead, Blacon, and Crabwall.
- The population was 36 in 1801, 115 in 1851, and 258 in 1901.
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