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"UPTON, a township in that part of the parish of ST.MARY CHESTER, which is in the lower division of the hundred of BROXTON, county palatine of CHESTER, 2¼ miles (N.) from Chester, containing 206 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Upton by Chester was a township in the ancient parishes of Chester: St. Mary on the Hill and Chester: St. Oswald, Broxton hundred (SJ 4169), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- It includes the hamlet of Upton Heath.
- The population was 173 in 1801, 555 in 1851, 1769 in 1901, 6343 in 1951, and 7800 in 2001.
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Heath Road, Upton (Chester), Congregationalist |
- 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+)
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- 1954 April 1 — Lost part to Chester (22 acres, pop. 10 in 1951)
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You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ408689 (Lat/Lon: 53.213846, -2.887957), Upton by Chester which are provided by:
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- 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.)
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- Chester Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Chester Rural District (1894-1974)
- Chester (1974-2009)
- Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)