Great Crosby
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CROSBY (Great), a village and a chapelry in Sephton parish, Lancashire. The village stands on the coast, near the river Mersey's mouth, 1¾ mile W of the Liverpool and Southport railway, 6½ miles NNW of Liverpool; is a much-frequented watering place; and has a station on the railway, a post office under Liverpool, and two hotels. The chapelry comprises 5,627 acres; of which 3,510 are water. Real property, £22,495. Pop., 3,794. Houses, 686. The property is much subdivided. Crosby House is the seat of John Myers, Esq. Crosby Point is near the village; Crosby lighthouse, 1¼ mile N of the Point, was erected in 1839, and shows a fixed light, 81 feet high; Crosby floating light is moored at the east elbow of the Burbo bank; and Crosby Channel, between that bank and the Formby, and about 6½ miles long, is the main entrance to. the Mersey. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £119.* Patron, the Rector of Sephton. The church was built in 1854, is cruciform and handsome, and has a tower with lofty spire. There are an elegant Wesleyan chapel, built in 1863 at a cost of £5,000, a Roman Catholic chapel, an endowed grammar school, an endowed girls' school, and a Roman Catholic convent school.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Crosby library.Cemeteries
- St Peter & St Paul, Liverpool Rd, Roman Catholic
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Great Crosby.Church History
Church Records
- Oxford Rd, Baptist, Waterloo
- St Michael, Dowhills Rd, Church of England, Blundellsands
- St Nicholas, Bridge Road, Church of England, Blundellsands
- All Saints, Forefield Lane, Church of England
- St Faith, Crosby Rd North, Church of England
- St Michael, Church of England
- Christ Church, Waterloo Road, Church of England, Waterloo
- St John, St John's Road, Church of England, Waterloo
- St Mary the Virgin, Park Rd, Waterloo Park, Church of England, Waterloo
- Church Rd, Congregational, Waterloo
- Haigh Rd, Latter Day Saints, Waterloo
- Warren Rd, Presbyterian, Blundellsands
- St Andrew, Crosby Road South, Presbyterian, Waterloo
- St Joseph, Serpentine South, Roman Catholic, Blundellsands
- St Helen, Alexandra Rd, Roman Catholic
- St Peter & St Paul, Liverpool Rd, Roman Catholic
- St Edmund, Oxford Road, Roman Catholic, Waterloo
- St Thomas of Canterbury, Great George's Rd, Roman Catholic, Waterloo
- Crosby Road South, Welsh Calvinist Methodist, Waterloo
- Mersey Rd, Wesleyan Methodist, Blundellsands
- Bath St, Wesleyan Methodist, Waterloo
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The registers of the parish church, St Luke, have been published by the Lancashire Parish Register Society as follows.
- Volume 130 - Bap 1749-1837.