Sephton or Sefton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Sephton or Sefton, a township and a parish in Lancashire. The township lies chiefly between the river Alt and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 1 mile W of Sefton and Maghull station on the Cheshire Lines Extension railway, and 6½ miles N of Liverpool, and gives the title of Earl to the head of the family of Molyneux. Post town, Blundell Sands; money order and telegraph office, Maghull. Acreage, 1234; population, 398. The manor was given at the Norman Conquest to William de Moline or Molyneux, and belongs now to the Earl of Sefton, who is chief landowner. The old parish of Sephton included Aintree, Great and Little Crosby, Blundell Sands, Litherland, Orrell and Ford, Seaforth, and Waterloo; these, with the exception of a portion of the last, have been constituted new parishes. The parish contains the five townships of Sephton, Lunt, Ince Blundell, Netherton, and Thomton, each having a parish council of five members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £1338 with residence. The church contains some 13th century work, but is mainly of the time of Henry VIII.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Lancashire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Sefton St. Helen | |
| Hundred | West Derby | |
| Poor Law union | West Derby |
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.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sephton or Sefton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sefton (St. Helen))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sephton or Sefton 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: