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MARKET TOWNS OF LANCASHIRE (from SDUK Penny Cyclopedia)

Newton in 1839

Newton is in West Derby hundred, locally between Manchester and Liverpool, but not on the road between those towns, 193 miles from London, through Warrington. Newton is a chapelry in Winwick parish, and contains 3,070 acres, with a population in 1831 of 2,139. The place consists chiefly of one street ; it has an ancient court-house, now used for a school. There is a market-cross, though the market has been long discontinued. Newton was a borough by prescription, and returned two members to parliament from 1 Elizabeth, till it was disfranchised by the Reform Act. The chapel, is a comparatively modern building. The living is a perpetual curacy, of the clear yearly value of £114, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester. There were in 1833 one endowed school, with 84 children ; three other day-schools, with 219 children ; and two Sunday-schools, with 277 children.