Runcorn, Cheshire Genealogy: Difference between revisions

RUNCORN (St. Bartholomew), is a sea-port and '''parish''', and the head of a union, in the hundred of Bucklow, N. division of the county of Chester; it is 9 miles (S. W. by W.) from Warrington, 12 (E. S. E.) from Liverpool, and 189 (N. W. by N.) from London. The parish includes the '''chapelries of Aston-by-Sutton, Daresbury, Halton, and Thelwall'''; and the townships of Acton-Grange, Aston-Grange, Clifton, Hatton, Keckwick, Moore, Newton-by-Daresbury, Norton, Prestonon-the-Hill, Stockham, Sutton, Walton Inferior and Superior, and Weston. The town contains places of worship for'''Independents''','''Wesleyans''','''Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, and Primitive and Independent Methodists; a Welsh chapel, and a Roman Catholic chapel'''.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A., A Topigraphical Dictionary of England (1848) adapted 15 January 2013</ref>