Description
Christleton, a township and a parish in Cheshire. The township lies on the Shropshire Union Canal, 2 1/2 miles ESE of Chester, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 1502; population, 902. There is a workmen's club, founded in 1871. The parish includes also the townships of Littleton, Rowton, Cotton Edmunds, and Cotton Abbots. Acreage, 3281; population of the civil parish, 1257; of the ecclesiastical, 1264. Christleton Hall is the seat of the Ince family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester; net value, £460 with residence. The church was restored in 1738 and again in 1877. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels, and four alms-houses.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
