• Elton was a township in Thornton Parish, Eddisbury Hundred (SJ 4675), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• The population was 167 in 1801, 216 in 1851, 190 in 1901, and 410 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Thornton le Moors, St. Mary (C of E). The ancient parish church for Elton.
• Elton, Methodist Chapel (Primitive).

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 (1837–71)
• 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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