Great Boughton Great Boughton is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It includes the villages of Boughton Heath and Vicars Cross. It had a population of 2,627 according to the 20 ...

is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in Cheshire West and Chester, England. It contains seven buildings that are recorded in the

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as designated

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s, all of which are at Grade II. This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". The parish is mainly residential, forming a suburb to the east of Chester, and two of the listed buildings are houses dating from the 18th century. Running through the parish is the Shropshire Union Canal (originally the

Chester Canal The Chester Canal was an English canal linking the south Cheshire town of Nantwich with the River Dee at Chester. It was intended to link Chester to Middlewich, with a branch to Nantwich, but the Trent and Mersey Canal were unco-operative abou ...

); associated with this are three listed buildings, two

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and a cottage. The other listed structures are two boundary stones.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Great Boughton Listed buildings in Cheshire West and Chester Lists of listed buildings in Cheshire

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