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PARR, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Prescot parish, Lancashire. The village stands near the Sankey canal, the St. Helens railway, and the Liverpooland Manchester railway, 1½ mile E S E of St. Helens r.station; and has a post-office under St. Helens. The township contains also the hamlets of Parr-Flat, Ashton-Green, and Blackbrook. Acres, 1,601. Real property, £35,208; of which £20,292 are in mines, £29 in the canal, and £68 in gas-works . Pop. in 1851, 4,875; in 1861, 8,253. Houses, 1,419. The manor belonged anciently to the family of Parr; one of whom was Sir Thomas Parr. There are extensive collieries, large alkali works, and copper works. The chapelry excludes part of the township, and was constituted in 1844. Pop.in 1861, 4,712. Houses, 824. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £300.* Patron, the Incumbent of St. Helens. The church was built in 1865, in room of a previous one destroyed by fire, but on a different-site. There are a dis-senting chapel, two national schools, 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 St.Helens library.Cemeteries
- St Peter, Broad Oak Road, Church of England
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Parr.Church History
Church Records
- St Philip, Derbyshire Hill Road/Fleet Lane, Church of England, Derbyshire Hill
- St Peter, Broad Oak Road, Church of England
- Holy Trinity, Traverse Street, Church of England, Parr Mount
- Boardman's Lane, Methodist
- St Vincent de Paul, Derbyshire Hill Rd, Roman Catholic
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