• Overton was a township in Malpas Parish, Broxton Hundred (SJ 4748), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Including the hamlet of Kidnal (part).
• The population was 97 in 1801, 122 in 1851, 122 in 1901, and 101 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Malpas, St. Oswald (C of E). The ancient parish church for Overton.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

• Whitchurch Rural Sanitary District (1875–94)
• Malpas Rural District (1894–1936), Tarvin Rural District (1894–74)
• Chester (1974–2009)
• Cheshire West and Chester (2009+)

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Eddisbury (1885–1948)
• Northwich (1949–54)
• Nantwich (1955–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

• Wrexham (1837–53)
• Whitchurch (1853–1930)

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Wrexham (1837–53)
• Whitchurch (1853–1937)
• West Cheshire (1937–74)
• Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974–98)
• Cheshire West (1998+)

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