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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Blacon like this:
BLACON-CUM-CRABHALL, a township in the parishes of Holy Trinity, St. Oswald, and Backford, Cheshire; near the Ellesmere canal and the Chester and Holyhead railway, 2 miles WSW of Chester. Acres, 1,115. Real property, £1,927. Pop., 69. Houses, 13.
Blacon 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 Blacon itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Blacon, in Cheshire West and Chester and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5675
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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