• Great Saughall was a township in Shotwick Parish, Wirral Hundred (SJ 3670), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1948 the whole of Great Saughall was added to Saughall civil parish.
• The population was 147 in 1801, 493 in 1851, and 703 in 1901.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Shotwick, St. Michael & All Angels (C of E). The ancient parish church for Great Saughall.
• Great Saughall, All Saints (C of E). Built in 1901, a separate parish from 1921 serving the townships of Great Saughall and Little Saughall. Registers of Baptisms 1901–1961 and Marriages 1901–1983 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office.
• Great Saughall, Grove Chapel (Church of Christ). Built in 1849, closed in 1981. Registers of baptisms 1845–1947 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
• Great Saughall, Methodist Chapel (Primitive).
• Great Saughall, Presbyterian Chapel.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Chester Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Chester Rural District (1894–1948).

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Eddisbury (1885–1915)
• Chester (1918–48)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

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

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Great Boughton (1837–69)
• Chester (1870–1937)
• West Cheshire (1937–48).

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