Description
Thornton, a township in Sefton parish, Lancashire, 7 miles N of Liverpool, and 2 from Sefton and Maghull station on the Cheshire Lines Committee railway. Post town, Liverpool; money order and telegraph office, Great Crosby. Acreage, 774; population, 225.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
