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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Prescot | |
Hundred | West Derby | |
Poor Law union | Prescot |
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:
- 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: