• Overpool was a township in Eastham parish, Wirral Hundred (SJ 3877), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• In 1911 the whole of Overpool was added to Ellesmere Port.
• The population was 89 in 1801, 72 in 1851, and 91 in 1901.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Eastham, St. Mary (C of E). The ancient parish church for Overpool.
• Ellesmere Port, Christ Church (C of E). The parish church from 1871.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Wirral Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Wirral Rural District (1894–1910)
• Ellesmere Port & Whitby Urban District (1910–11)

CEMETERIES

• Overpool Cemetery, Rossman Road East. Opened 1913.

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Wirral (1885–1911)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Wirral

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Wirral (1837–1911)

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