Places: Bexton
Place Type
Township
County
Cheshire
Parish
Rostherne (Knutsford chapelry)
Deanery
Frodsham
Causes
EDC 5/4/1 – Pernell Danyell contra Joan Walton
BEXTON
Bexton was a very small hamlet, forming part of the chapelry of Knutsford. In 1848 it was entirely agricultural.
According to the website GENUKI (https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CHS/bexton) ‘The population was 49 in 1801, 87 in 1851, 124 in 1901, 11 in 1951, and 9 in 2001.’
By the middle of the seventeenth century half was held by the Cholmondeley family and half by the Daniell family.
Sources:
George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (second edition, revised and enlarged by T. Helsby, London, 1882), vol.i, pp. 507-509
‘Beverstone – Bickleigh’, in A Topographical Dictionary of England, ed. Samuel Lewis( London, 1848), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp228-233