Description
Aughton, a township and a parish in Lancashire. The parish lies on a branch of the river Alt, and on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, at Town-Green station, near the Liverpool and Leeds Canal, 2 1/2 miles SSW of Ormskirk, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 4610 ; population, 3456. Sir R. T. Tempest, Bart., is lord of the manor and chief landowner. There are several handsome villa residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £500 with residence. The parish church, dedicated to St Michael, dates from the 13th century. There are also a handsome modem church, which is a chapel of ease, built in 1877, and Roman Catholic and Baptist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
