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Aintree, Lancashire

Historical Description

Aintree, a township, which was formed into a parish in 1878 from the civil parishes of Sefton and Walton on the Hill, in Lancashire, on the Alt river and the Leeds Canal, 6 miles NNE of Liverpool. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.O.) under Liverpool, and stations on the Lancashire and Yorkshire and Cheshire Lines Committee railways. Acreage, 850; population of the civil parish, 263; of the ecclesiastical parish of Aintree St Peter, 2719. A church was erected in 1876-77, at a cost of £6000, in the Gothic style. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £140 with residence, in the gift of the rector of Sefton. It contains, with a grand stand built in 1830, a race-course, 1½ mile round, where the Liverpool races are run in March, July, and November. The Earl of Sefton is lord of the manor and principal landowner.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishSephton 
HundredWest Derby 
Poor Law unionWest Derby 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Aintree from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Aintree are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictSefton
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtL10
Post TownLiverpool

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