• Ince was a township and parish in Eddisbury Hundred (SJ 5362), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1950 the whole of Ince was added to Ellesmere Port.
• The population was 443 in 1801, 422 in 1851, and 290 in 1901.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Ince, St. James the Great (C of E). The ancient parish church for the township of Ince. Registers of Baptisms 1687–1786 & 1813–1870, Marriages 1687–1837, and Burials 1687–1786 & 1813–1912 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office, where Bishop's Transcripts date from 1600.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Chester Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Chester Rural District (1894–1933)
• Ellesmere Port Urban District (1933–50).

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Eddisbury (1885–1915)
• Chester (1918–48)
• Wirral (1949–50)

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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