Maghull, Lancashire
Historical Description
Maghull, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Halsall parish, Lancashire, on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 5 miles SSW of Ormskirk, with a station on the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Southport branch of the L. & Y.R.,and another on the Cheshire Lines Committee railway. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Liverpool. Acreage of township, 2098; population, 1422. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £282 with residence. Patron, the Eector of Halsall. The church is a building in the Early English style, erected in 1878-80 near the old church, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, N porch, and an embattled western tower. A Roman Catholic chapel was built in 1890, and there are also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
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 | Halsall | |
Hundred | West Derby | |
Poor Law union | Ormskirk |
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 Maghull from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Maghull 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: