Whiston
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WHISTON, a township in Prescot parish, Lancashire; on the Liverpool and Manchester railway, 1 mile S of Prescot. It has a post-office under Prescot; and it contains Prescot workhouse. Acres, 1,793. Real property, £10,867; of which £4,381 are in mines, and £135 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 1,825; in 1861, 1,727, of whom 155 were in the workhouse. Houses, 318. A church was built here in 1865, at a cost of about £6,000; and is in the early English style, with tower and spire, 150 feet high. There are also a Methodist chapel and a national school.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Cemeteries
- St Nicholas, Windy Arbor Road, Church of England
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Whiston.Church History
Church Records
- St Nicholas, Windy Arbor Road, Church of England
- Free Methodist
- Dragon Drive, Methodist
- Welsh Methodist
- Wesleyan Methodist
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