Description
Culcheth, a township in Lancashire. the township is in Newchurch-Kenyon parish, and comprises the village of Newchurch; lies on the Liverpool and Manchester railway, 3 miles S of Leigh, and has a church, which was restored in 1877, Methodist chapels, a national endowed school for boys and girls, and a station on the M. S. & L.R. Post, money order, and telegraph office, Newchurch, under Warrington. Acreage, 5369; population, 2285. Culcheth Hall is the seat of the Withington family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £230 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Derby. Cotton manufacture is carried on, and bricks and tiles are made.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
