Place:


Great Mollington  Cheshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Great Mollington like this:

MOLLINGTON (GREAT), or M. TARRANT, a township, with a straggling village, in Backford parish, Cheshire; on the Ellesmere canal, and on the Chester and Birkenhead railway, at Mollington r. station, 2½ miles NNW of Chester. Acres, 821. Real property, £1,296. Pop., 186. Houses, 30. Mollington Hall is the seat of John Feilden, Esq.; and stands in a beautiful park, with a fine sheet of water.

Great Mollington through time

Great Mollington is now part of Chester district. Click here for graphs and data of how Chester has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Great Mollington itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Great Mollington, in Chester and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4554

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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