There are two tiers of local government covering Hoole Village, at parish and
unitary authority level: Mickle Trafford and District Parish Council, and
Cheshire West and Chester Council. The parish council generally meets at the village hall in
Mickle Trafford.
Administrative history Hoole was historically a
township which was mostly in the
ancient parish of
Plemstall, which formed part of the
Broxton Hundred of Cheshire. From the 17th century onwards, parishes were gradually given various civil functions under the
poor laws, in addition to their original ecclesiastical functions. In some cases, including Hoole, the civil functions were exercised by the township rather than the wider parishes. In 1866, the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws, and so Hoole became a
civil parish. In 1864, a Hoole
local government district was created. Its promoters initially sought to have the whole township included in the district, but objections from ratepayers in the more rural north-eastern part of the township led to the district covering only the south-western part of the township. Local government districts were reconstituted as
urban districts under the
Local Government Act 1894. The 1894 Act also directed that civil parishes could no longer straddle district boundaries, and so the parish of Hoole was reduced to match the urban district, and the rural part of the old parish outside the urban district was made a separate parish, which Cheshire County Council chose to name Hoole Village. The boundary between Hoole and Hoole Village was changed in 1936 and again in 1954, when Hoole was absorbed into the city of Chester, subject to a realignment of the boundary with Hoole Village to follow the
A41 road. Hoole Village was too small to have a parish council, having a
parish meeting instead. In 1960, the parish was placed under a
grouped parish council with
Bridge Trafford and Mickle Trafford, called the Mickle Trafford and District Parish Council. In 1972, the group of parishes was enlarged to also include
Picton and
Wimbolds Trafford. On 1 April 2015 the five parishes within the group were merged into a single civil parish called Mickle Trafford and District, subject to some minor adjustments to boundaries with neighbouring parishes. ==Landmarks and places of interest==