Sutton
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SUTTON, a township and a chapelry in Prescot parish, Lancashire. The township lies around Sutton-Oak, Lea-Green, and St. Helens Junction r. stations, 2½ miles S of St. Helens; and has a post-office under St. Helens. Acres, 3,616. Real property, £44,146; of which £9,147 are in mines, £170 in canals, £2,640 in railways, and £1,601 in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 5,288; in 1861, 9,223. Houses, 1,588. There are numerous good residences. Coal, ironstone, limestone, and potters' clay are worked; and there are glass-works, bottle-works, cobalt and zaffer-works, copper-smelting-works, earthen-ware works, drain-pipe works, grease and varnish-works, an oil-refinery, and watch-movement manufactures. A county lunatic asylum also is here. The chapelry includes only part of the township, and was constituted in 1848. Pop. in 1861, 4,071. Houses, 755. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £716. Patron, Kings College, Cambridge. The church is in the pointed style. There are a Wesleyan chapel and national schools.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 Nicholas, New Street, Church of England
- St Anne and Blessed Dominic, Monastery Rd, Roman Catholic
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Sutton.Church History
Church Records
- All Saints, Ellamsbridge Road, Church of England
- St Michael and All Angels, Gartons Lane, Sutton Manor, Church of England
- St Nicholas, New Street, Church of England
- St Matthew, St Matthew's Grove, Church of England, Thatto Heath
- Free Gospel, Thatto Heath
- Sutton Village Church, Herbert St, Independent Methodist
- New Street, Methodist
- Balmer St, Methodist, Thatto Heath
- St Joseph, Sutton Rd, Roman Catholic, Peasley Cross
- St Anne and Blessed Dominic, Monastery Rd, Roman Catholic
- St Theresa of the Child Jesus, Gartons Lane, Sutton Manor, Roman Catholic
- United Methodist Free Church, Marshall''s Cross
- Sutton Oak, Sutton Rd, Welsh Chapel
- Sutton Rd, Wesleyan Methodist
- Nutgrove Rd, Wesleyan Methodist, Thatto Heath
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