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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)
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Details about the census records, and indexes for Whiston.
The Register Office covering the Whiston area is Knowsley.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"WHISTON, a township in the parish of Prescot, hundred of West Derby, county Lancaster, 1 mile S. of Prescot, of which it is a suburb, and contains the Union poorhouse. The Liverpool and Manchester railway passes through the township by an inclined plane. There are extensive collieries."
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In 1835 Whiston was a township in the parish of Prescot.
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For probate purposes prior to 1858, Whiston 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.
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