• Dodleston was a township in Dodleston Parish, Broxton Hundred (SJ 3661), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Including the hamlets of Balderton and Gorstella (part).
• The population was 185 in 1801, 258 in 1851, 307 in 1901, and 267 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Dodleston, St. Mary (C of E). An ancient parish, originally serving the townships of Dodleston and Lower Kinnerton (Cheshire) and Higher Kinnerton (Flintshire). Registers of Baptisms 1570–1903, Marriages 1570–1983 and Burials 1570–1880 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office (except registers for the period 1647–1724, which are missing).
• Dodleston, Methodist Chapel (Primitive). Built in 1867.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Chester Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Chester Rural District (1894–1974)
• Chester (1974–2009)
• Cheshire West and Chester (2009+)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Eddisbury (1885–1915)
• Chester (1918–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Great Boughton (1837–53)
• Hawarden (1853–71)
• Chester (1871–1930)

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Great Boughton (1837–69)
• Chester (1870–1937)
• West Cheshire (1937–74)
• Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974–98)
• Cheshire West (1998+)

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