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"COTTON (EDMUND'S), a township in the parish of CHRISTLETON, lower division of the hundred of BROXTON, county palatine of CHESTER, 4¼ miles (E. by S.) from Chester, containing 85 inhabitants. It derives its name from Edmund de Cotton, who formerly possessed it." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Cotton Edmunds was a township in Christleton ancient parish, Broxton hundred (SJ 4664), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- The population was 73 in 1801, 68 in 1851, 62 in 1901, 28 in 1951, and 25 in 2001.
- In 2015 the civil parish was abolished and incorporated into Christleton.
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- 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 (2009-15)
- Broxton (1828-1974)
- Chester (1974-2001)
- Chester, Ellesmere Port & Neston (2001-12)
- West Cheshire (2012-15)
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- 1888 March 24 — Gained a detached part of Cotton Abbotts (21 acres, pop. 5 in 1891, including Stamford Mill Farm)
- 1963 April 1 — Gained parts of Foulk Stapleford (under 1 hectare, pop. 0 in 1961), Hockenhull (1 hectare, pop. 0 in 1961) and Tarvin (1 hectare, pop. 0 in 1961), and lost parts to Christleton (under 1 hectare, pop. 0 in 1961), Foulk Stapleford (under 1 hectare, pop. 0 in 1961), Hockenhull (1 hectare, pop. 0 in 1961) and Tarvin (under 1 hectare, pop. 0 in 1961)
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- Tarvin Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Tarvin Rural District (1894-1974)
- Chester (1974-2009)
- Cheshire West & Chester (2009-15)