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PRESCOT, a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Lancashire. The town stands 2 miles N E of Huyton r. station, 2 N W of Rainhill r.station, and 8 E by N of Liverpool; is a seat of petty sessions; publishes a weekly newspaper; carries on extensive manufacture of watch-movements, watch-tools, and files; participates in the coal trade; contains breweries and manufactories of coarse earthenware and sanitary tubes; and has a head post-office, a town hall, a church, three dis-senting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a grammar school, a public lending library, a floral and horticultural society, a harmonic society, several endowed alms-houses, and aggregate charities £898. The town includes all P. township, and part of Eccleston township. Pop. in 1851, 7,393; in 1861, 6,066. Houses, 1,204. The township comprises 270 acres. Real property, £15,224; of which £1,500 are in mines, and £60 in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 6,393; in 1861, 5,130. Houses, 1,015. Pop. in 1851, 46,527; in 1861, 63,540. Houses, 11,288. The living of Prescot is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £1,200.* Patron, Kings College, Cambridge. more ...
John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
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Local studies information is held at Knowsley library.
St Mary, Prescot, Church of England |
Ebenezer, Prescot, Independent |
Houghton St, Prescot, Wesleyan Methodist |
Atherton St Unitarian, Prescot |
Details about the census records, and indexes for Prescot.
St Mary, Prescot, Church of England |
Aspinall St Congregational, Prescot |
Ebenezer, Prescot, Independent |
Atherton St Unitarian, Prescot |
Our Lady Immaculate & St Joseph Roman Catholic, Prescot |
The Register Office covering the Prescot area is Prescot.
"THE POTTERIES, a hamlet in the parish of Prescot, hundred of West Derby, county Lancaster, 8 miles E. of Liverpool. So named from the potteries established here."
"HAIGH GREEN, a hamlet in the parish of Prescot, county Lancaster, 4 miles S. of Prescot."
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Prescot to another place.
ENG-LAN-PRESCOT is an e-mail list for Prescot genealogy.
Some information about the history of Prescot.
View maps of Prescot and places within its boundaries.
View a map of the boundaries of this town/parish.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ466925 (Lat/Lon: 53.426913, -2.804743), Prescot which are provided by:
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- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
The Workhouse site has an interesting description of Prescot workhouse.
For probate purposes prior to 1858, Prescot was in the Archdeaconry of Chester, in the Diocese of Chester. The original Lancashire wills for the Archdeaconry of Chester are held at the Lancashire Record Office.
You can also see Family History Societies covering the nearby area, plotted on a map. This facility is being developed, and is awaiting societies to enter information about the places they cover.