• Marton was A township in Whitegate and Over Parishes, Eddisbury Hundred (SJ 6068), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1936 the hamlets of Ballsgate, Cinder Hill and Foxwist Green were transferred from Marton to Winsford.
• Including the hamlets of Beauty Bank, Cassia Green, Chester Lane Brook, Daleford, Newchurch, Nova Scotia and Nunsmere.
• The population was 431 in 1801, 641 in 1851, 549 in 1901, and 548 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Whitegate, St. Mary and Over, St. Chad (C of E) were the ancient parish churches serving Marton.
• Marton, Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan). Built 1878.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

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

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Eddisbury (1885–1948)
• Northwich (1949–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Northwich

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Northwich (1837–1974)
• Vale Royal (1974–98)
• Cheshire Central (1998–2009)
• Cheshire West (2009+)

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