PARKGATE, a village in Great Neston parish, Cheshire; on the estuary of the Dee, at the terminus of the Hooton and Parkgate railway, ¾ of a mile N W of Great Neston. It was once a considerable port, and a packetstation; but it suffered desertion of most of its business, in consequence of a shoaling-up of its harbour; it now isfrequented as a watering place, and consists mostly of lodging-houses arranged in a long and irregular row; and it has a post-office under Chester, a railway station, a schoolchurch, a Presbyterian chapel, and a boarding-school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))