• Great Stanney was a township in Stoak Parish, Wirral Hundred (SJ 4173), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1911 it was extended in 1911 to include the whole of Stanlow.
• In 1950 the whole of Great Stanney was added to Ellesmere Port civil parish.
• Including the hamlets of Stanney Grange and Wolverham.
• The population of Great Stanney was 12 in 1801, 56 in 1851, and 58 in 1901.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Stoak, St. Lawrence (C of E). The ancient parish church for Great Stanney.
• Ellesmere Port, Christ Church (C of E). The parish church since 1964.
• Wolverham, Methodist Chapel. Founded 1954, closed in 1962.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Chester Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Chester Rural District (1894–1910)
• Ellesmere Port & Whitby Urban District (1910–33).

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Eddisbury (1885–1915)
• Wirral (1918–50)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Great Boughton (1837–71)
• Chester (1871–1930)

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Great Boughton (1837–69)
• Chester (1870–1937)
• West Cheshire (1937–50)

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