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Whiston, Lancashire

Historical Description

Whiston, a township in Prescot parish, Lancashire, on the Liverpool and Manchester railway, 1 mile S of Prescot. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Prescot, and it contains the Prescot Union Workhouse. Acreage, including Hals Nead, 1783; population, 3117. For parish council purposes it is divided into three wards, and has a council of ten members. Halsnead Hall, standing in a park of nearly 600 acres, is the seat of the Anyers-Willis family, who are lords of the manor. The ecclesiastical parish consists of part of the townships of Whiston and Tarbock, and was constituted in 1869. Population, 2634. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £295 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Prescot. The church was built in 1865, and is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and tower. There are also Free, Wesleyan, and Welsh Methodist chapels, the Prescot Sanatorium Hospital, and almshouses.

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 Whiston from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Whiston 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:

DistrictKnowsley
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtL35
Post TownPrescot

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