Description
Halewood, a township in Childwall parish, and an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire. The township lies 8 miles from Liverpool, and has a station on the Cheshire Lines railway, a post, money order, and telegraph office under Liverpool, and includes the hamlet of Halebank. Acreage, 3988 of land and 164 of water; population, 2296. The manor belongs to the Earl of Derby. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Liverpool; value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Childwall. The church was built in 1839 and enlarged in 1847, and is in the Early English style. There is a Wesleyan chapeL
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
