• Upton by Chester was a township in St. Mary on the Hill Parish, Broxton Hundred (SJ 4169), which became a civil parish in 1866.
• Including the hamlet of Upton Heath.
• The population was 173 in 1801, 555 in 1851, 1769 in 1901, and 6343 in 1951.

CHURCHES AND CHAPELS

• Chester, St. Mary on the Hill (C of E). The ancient parish church for Upton.
• Upton, Holy Ascension (C of E). Built in 1854 as a chapel to St Mary on the Hill. From 1882 the parish church for part of Blacon cum Crabwall and, Little Mollington, Moston (near Chester) and Upton by Chester. Registers of Baptisms 1854–1991, Marriages 1875–1997 and Burials 1853–1976 have been deposited at the Cheshire Record Office
• Upton, United Reformed Church (Independent/Congregational), Heath Road. Built in 1860, rebuilt in 1900.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS

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

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS

• South Cheshire (1832–67)
• West Cheshire (1868–85)
• Eddisbury (1885–1915)
• Chster (1918–74)

POOR-LAW UNIONS

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

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

• Great Boughton (1837–69)
• Chester (1870–1937)
• West Cheshire (1937–74)
• Chester and Ellesmere Port (1974–98)
• Cheshire West (1998+)

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