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GREAT MEOLS

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Genealogy◬
Historical Geography
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Politics & Government
Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.
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"MEOLSE (GREAT), a township in the parish of WEST-KIRBY, lower division of the hundred of WIRRALL, county palatine of CHESTER, 10¼ miles (N. N.W.) from Great Neston, containing 159 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]

Great Meols (or Great Meolse) was a township in West Kirby ancient parish, Wirral hundred (SJ 2390), which became a civil parish in 1866.
The civil parish was abolished in 1894 to become part of Hoylake cum West Kirby.
It includes the hamlets of Farnalls Green and Sandhey.
The population was 140 in 1801, 170 in 1851, and 821 in 1901.

For the period after 1894, see Hoylake cum West Kirby.

Churches

See Hoylake cum West Kirby.

Anglican
St John the Baptist, Great Meols, Church of England
St John the Baptist, Great Meols, Church of England

Congregational / Independent
St Andrew, Great Meols, United Reformed Church

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Civil Registration

Wirral (1837-94)

Court Records

Wirral (1828-94)

Description and Travel

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Historical Geography

1894 — Abolished and incorporated into Hoylake cum West Kirby (pop. 821 in 1901)

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Maps

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Politics and Government

Wirral Rural Sanitary District (1875-91)
West Kirby & Hoylake Urban Sanitary District (1891-94)

Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.

Wirral (1836-94)

Voting Registers

South Cheshire (1832-67)
West Cheshire (1868-85)
Wirral (1885-94)