Earlstown, Lancashire
Historical Description
Earlstown, an ecclesiastical parish constituted in 1879, in Newton-in-Makerfield parish, Lancashire, on the Manchester and Liverpool railway, l¼ mile WSW of Newton. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newton-le-Willows, and a station on the railway. Population, 6688. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; value, £200 with residence, in the gift of the Rector of Newton-le-Willows. The church is a building in the Early English style, erected in 1878. There are Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan, and Welsh Baptist chapels. Building the waggons for the L. & N.W.R. employs over 1000 hands, while others are engaged in a large sugar refinery.
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.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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