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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Parkgate like this:
PARKGATE, a village in Great Neston parish, Cheshire; on the estuary of the Dee, at the terminus of the Hooton and Parkgate railway, ¾ of a mile N W of Great Neston. It was once a considerable port, and a packetstation; but it suffered desertion of most of its business, in consequence of a shoaling-up of its harbour; it now isfrequented as a watering place, and consists mostly of lodging-houses arranged in a long and irregular row; and it has a post-office under Chester, a railway station, a schoolchurch, a Presbyterian chapel, and a boarding-school.
Parkgate is now part of CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Parkgate itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Parkgate, in Cheshire West and Chester and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Ireland through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/place/25648
Date accessed: 10th February 2026
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