Appleton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Appleton, a village in Widnes township, Farnworth ecclesiastical parish, Lancashire, near St Helen's railway, the Sankey Canal, and the river Mersey, 6½ miles NNW of Warrington. It has a station on the Widnes section of the L. & N.W.R., a post and money order office under Widnes, and Wesleyan, Baptist, and Roman Catholic chapels. Pinion wire, for watches and clocks, and tools are manufactured here, and there is also a quarry of red sandstone.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Appleton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: