Flixton, Lancashire

Description
Flixton, a township and a parish in Lancashire. The-township lies in the peninsula between the rivers Irwell and. Mersey, 7 miles WSW of Manchester, and has a station on the Cheshire Lines Committee railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester. The parish includes the township of Unnston. Acreage, 1564; population of the civil parish, 2786; of the ecclesiastical, 2325. Cotton manufacture is carried on. A drill ball which will hold 500 people has been erected, and is principally used by the local volunteers for drilling purposes. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; net yearly value, £323 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church is good, and contains stained memorial windows of Mr Thomas Rogers, the Wright family, the Reade family, and others. The vicarage of Urmston is a separate charge,, constituted in 1868. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a Conservative club, and public baths.