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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"NEWCHURCH, (or Newchurch Kenyon), a chapelry and township in the parish of Winwick, hundred of West Derby, county Lancaster, 3 miles S. of Leigh, 6 E. by S. of Newton-in-Makerfield, and 5 N. of Warrington. It is situated near the Sankey canal and the line of the North-Western railway. The inhabitants are partly engaged in the cotton-mills and in the manufacture of hardware. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £169. The living is a rectory with the curacy of Bury Lane annexed, in the diocese of Chester, value £180. The church is a modern edifice containing 365 free sittings.