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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"PARR, a township in the parish of Prescot, hundred of West Derby, county Lancaster, 1 mile S.E. of St. Helen's, its post town, 3 S.W. of Newton-in-Mackerfield, and 5 E. of Prescot. The township, which is situated near the Runcorn railway and Sankey canal, comprises the hamlets of Parr Stocks, Parr Flatts, Ashton Green and Blackbrook. There are several collieries, copper works, and extensive alkali works, which give employment to a large number of the inhabitants. The colliers employed by one proprietor collected among themselves no less a sum than £50 towards the erection of the church. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester, value £150, in the patronage of the Incumbent of St. Helen's. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is modern. There are National and infant schools, also a school for the Roman Catholics, and a Sunday-school for the Wesleyans."