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Great Sankey, Lancashire

Historical Description

Sankey, Great, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Prescot parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the Sankey Canal, 2¼ miles W of Warrington, and has a station called Sankey on the Cheshire Lines Committee railway and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Warrington and a station on a section of the L. & N.W.R., both of the name of Sankey Bridge. Acreage, including Great Sankey Green, 1909 of land and 14 of water; population, 580. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Powys family. Railway viaducts here cross the Sankey Canal. The ecclesiastical parish was originally contenninate with the township, but now includes also the township of Penketh. Population, 2253. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £170 with residence. Patron, Lord Lilford. The church is an old brick building in the Early English style.

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 parishPrescot 
HundredWest Derby 
Poor Law unionWarrington 

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 Great Sankey from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Great Sankey 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:

CountyWarrington
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtWA5
Post TownWarrington

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