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"WILLASTON, a township in the parish of NESTON, higher division of the hundred of WIRRALL, county palatine of CHESTER, 2¾ miles (E.) from Great Neston, containing 261 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Willaston was a township in Neston ancient parish, Wirral hundred (SJ 3377), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- Since 1974 it has been an unparished area.
- The population was 196 in 1801, 317 in 1851, 597 in 1901, 1458 in 1951, and 2922 in 2001.
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- Wirral (1837-1974)
- Chester & Ellesmere Port (1974-98)
- Cheshire West (1998-2007)
- Cheshire (2007-09)
- Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)
- Wirral (1828-1974)
- Ellesmere Port (1974-2001)
- Chester, Ellesmere Port & Neston (2001-12)
- West Cheshire (2012+)
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- 1933 April 1 — Gained part of Eastham (15 acres, pop. 12 in 1931), and lost parts to Childer Thornton (28 acres, pop. 0 in 1931), Ledsham (60 acres, pop. 34 in 1931), Little Sutton (32 acres, pop. 0 in 1931), Puddington (65 acres, pop. 14 in 1931) and Raby (60 acres, pop. 0 in 1931)
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- Wirral Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Wirral Rural District (1894-1933)
- Neston Urban District (1933-74)
- Ellesmere Port (1974-76)
- Ellesmere Port & Neston (1976-2009)
- Cheshire West & Chester (2009+)