Aintree, Lancashire
Historical Description
Aintree, a township, which was formed into a parish in 1878 from the civil parishes of Sefton and Walton on the Hill, in Lancashire, on the Alt river and the Leeds Canal, 6 miles NNE of Liverpool. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.O.) under Liverpool, and stations on the Lancashire and Yorkshire and Cheshire Lines Committee railways. Acreage, 850; population of the civil parish, 263; of the ecclesiastical parish of Aintree St Peter, 2719. A church was erected in 1876-77, at a cost of £6000, in the Gothic style. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £140 with residence, in the gift of the rector of Sefton. It contains, with a grand stand built in 1830, a race-course, 1½ mile round, where the Liverpool races are run in March, July, and November. The Earl of Sefton is lord of the manor and principal landowner.
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 | Sephton | |
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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Aintree from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Aintree 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: