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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 is now part of CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Great Mollington itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Great Mollington, in Cheshire West and Chester and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4554
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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