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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.

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

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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

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

CountyHalton
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtWA8
Post TownWidnes

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