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An electoral ward in the name of Upton exists, within the borough of Cheshire West and Chester. This unitary authority replaced both Chester City Council and Cheshire County Council on 1 April 2009. Upton-by-Chester is a civil parish, combining with nearby Bache and Moston to form a joint parish council. [2] Upton-by-Chester is twinned with ...
Part of the parish is a suburb of the city of Chester. It also contains the Countess of Chester Hospital, and part of Chester Zoo. The listed buildings consist of two structures associated with the hospital, a former country house now located within the zoo, a church, a former windmill, a cottage, a war memorial, and a boundary stone.
Dorin Park Special School is a school in Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire, for children with a statement for complex special educational needs, aged between 2 and 19 years of age. It has specialist SEN status. [1] The school was opened in 1977.
The then Education Secretary Keith Joseph as well as the LEA was involved in the transfer of the school from Council to Voluntary Aided status in 1984. The Bishops’ High School is the only Anglican secondary school in the Cheshire West & Chester Local Authority and at present one of only two within the Chester Diocese. The other, Sir Thomas ...
Chester was a non-metropolitan local government district of Cheshire, England, from 1974 to 2009. It had the status of a city and a borough, and the local authority was called Chester City Council. Apart from Chester itself, which was the principal settlement, the district covered a large rural area. Other settlements included Malpas and Tarvin.
Lea was administered by Doddington and District Parish Council, which also includes the parishes of Blakenhall, Bridgemere, Checkley cum Wrinehill, Doddington and Hunsterson. [4] From 1974 the civil parish was served by Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council, which was succeeded on 1 April 2009 by the new unitary authority of Cheshire East . [ 5 ]
Oakfield Manor was originally a country house in Upton-by-Chester, near Chester, Cheshire, England.Since the 1930s it has been the headquarters of Chester Zoo.The house and its stables are recorded separately in the National Heritage List for England as designated Grade II listed buildings.
Chester Zoo is a zoo in Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire, England. Chester Zoo was opened in 1931 by George Mottershead and his family. [ 3 ] The zoo is one of the UK's largest zoos at 51 hectares (130 acres) [ 4 ] and the zoo has a total land holding of approximately 160 hectares (400 acres).