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Rainhill, Lancashire

Historical Description

Rainhill, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire. The village stands on the Liverpool and Manchester railway, 9 miles E of Liverpool. It carries on manufactures of watch movements, watchmakers' tools, and brooches; and has also a brass foundry, a quarry of fine red sandstone, a station on the railway, a post, money order, and telegraph office, a church, and Wesleyan, Congregational, and Roman Catholic chapels. The church was built in 1837, enlarged in 1843, and almost entirely rebuilt in 1868; and consists of chancel, nave, and aisles, with a tower and spire. The Roman Catholic chapel is a large and highly ornate edifice; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower; was restored in 1868; and has in connection with it a school and a convent. The township comprises 1640 acres; population, 2294. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. Numerous villas stand on a hill, and command fine views over the Mersey into Cheshire. The ecclesiastical parish is more extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1840. Population, 3156. The living is a vicarage- in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £240 with residence. The Rainhill County Lunatic Asylum is situated in Sutton parish.

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 unionPrescot 

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 Rainhill from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Rainhill 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:

DistrictSt. Helens
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtL35
Post TownPrescot

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