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"SAIGHTON, a township in that part of the parish of ST.OSWALD,CHESTER, which is in the lower division of the hundred of BROXTON, county palatine of CHESTER, 4½ miles (S.E.) from Chester, containing 291 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Saighton (pronounced Say-tun) was a township in St. Oswald's ancient parish, Broxton hundred (SJ 4359), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- It included the hamlets of Hatton Heath (part) and Platt's Rough (part).
- The population was 242 in 1801, 329 in 1851, 308 in 1901, 312 in 1951, and 192 in 2001.
- The civil parish was abolished in 2015 to become part of Aldford & Saighton.
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| Saighton Lane, Saighton, Presbyterian |
- 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 (1828-71)
- Chester Castle (1871-1974)
- Chester (1974-2001)
- Chester, Ellesmere Port & Neston (2001-12)
- West Cheshire (2012-15)
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Saighton to another place.
- 2015 April 1 — Abolished and incorporated into the parishes of Aldford & Saighton and Hargrave & Huxley.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ442620 (Lat/Lon: 53.152198, -2.835842), Saighton which are provided by:
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- Tarvin Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Tarvin Rural District (1894-1936)
- Chester Rural District (1936-74)
- Chester (1974-2009)
- Cheshire West & Chester (2009-15)