Melling in Halsall
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MELLING, a township-chapelry in Halsall parish, Lancashire; on the Leeds and Liverpool canal, adjacent to the river Alt, and to the East Lancashire railway, 1 mile SE of Maghull r. station, and 7 NNE of Liverpool. It has a postal letter-box under Liverpool. Acres, 2,120. Real property, £5,430; of which £100 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 662; in 1861, 728. Houses, 126. The chief landowners are Lord Skelmersdale, the Earl of Derby, and T. W. Blundell, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £120. Patron, the Rector of Halsall. The church was rebuilt in 1834; is in the pointed style; and contains several handsome tablets. There are a national schoo1, with £25 a year from endowment, and a Roman Catholic school.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Ormskirk and Skelmersdale libraries.Cemeteries
- St Thomas, Rock Lane, Church of England, Melling in Halsall
Census
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Church Records
- St Thomas, Rock Lane, Church of England, Melling in Halsall
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Civil Registration
The Register Office covering the Melling in Halsall area is Sefton South.Gazetteers
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In 1835 Melling was a township in the parish of Halsall.Information about boundaries and administrative areas is available from A Vision of Britain through time.