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BOSTOCK

Churches
Civil Registration
Court Records
Description & Travel
Historical Geography

Maps
Politics
Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.
Voting Registers

"BOSTOCK, a township in the parish of DAVENHAM, hundred of NORTHWICH, county palatine of CHESTER, 2¾ miles (N. W. by W.) from Middlewich, containing 174 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]

Bostock was a township in Davenham ancient parish, Northwich hundred (SJ 6768), which became a civil parish in 1866.
The population was 173 in 1801, 154 in 1851, 197 in 1901, 146 in 1951, and 229 in 2001.

Churches

Davenham: St. Wilfrid (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Bostock.
Moulton: St. Stephen the Martyr (Church of England). The district church for a small part of Bostock from 1877.

Civil Registration

Northwich (1837-1974)
Vale Royal (1974-98)
Cheshire Central (1998-2007)
Cheshire (2007-09)
Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)

Court Records

Northwich (1828-99)
Middlewich & Sandbach (1899-1907)
Middlewich (1907-67)
South East Cheshire (1967-74)
Vale Royal (1974-2012)
West Cheshire (2012+)

Description and Travel

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Gazetteers

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Historical Geography

1883 March 25 — Gained a detached part of Moulton (9 acres, pop. 0 in 1891)
1936 April 1 — Gained part of Wharton (16 acres, pop. 20 in 1931), and lost parts to Moulton (10 acres, pop. 3 in 1931) and Winsford (54 acres, pop. 0 in 1931)

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Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ670693 (Lat/Lon: 53.219719, -2.495685), BOSTOCK which are provided by:

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Google Streetview
StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
OpenStreetMap
Bing (was Multimap)
OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
National Library of Scotland (Best site for old 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)
Elgin Road Works
GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
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Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Politics and Government

Northwich Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
Northwich Rural District (1894-1974)
Vale Royal (1974-2009)
Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)

Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.

Northwich

Voting Registers

South Cheshire (1832-67)
Mid Cheshire (1868-85)
Northwich (1885-1974)