Description
Greenhalgh-with-Thirleton, a township in Kirkham civil and Weston ecclesiastical parish, Lancashire, 2 miles NW of Kirkham station on the Preston and Wyre Joint railway. Post town, Preston; money order and telegraph office, Great Eccleston. It includes Esprick hamlet, and has ruins of a castle, said to have been built by the first Earl of Derby, and seeming to have comprised seven or eight towers of much height and strength. Acreage, 1897; population, 374. There is a Congregational chapel
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
