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 == Parish History  ==
-Runcorn is a town on the South bank of the River Mersey and has many religious churches and chapels. The individual parish pages have been created or chapel of one denomination listed for detailed information.
+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>
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