Halsall, Lancashire

Description
Halsall, a village, a township, and a parish in Lancashire. The village stands near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, is a scattered place, and has a station, called Barton and Halsall, on the Cheshire Lines Committee's railway, and a post and telegraph office under Ormskirk; money order office, Orms-kirk. The township includes also the hamlets of Barton and Haskeyne. Acreage, 6995; population, 1264. The parish contains likewise the townships of Down Holland, Lydiate, Moiling, and Maghull. Acreage, 16, 679; population of the civil parish, 5451; of the ecclesiastical, 1568. A considerable area of marsh land has been reclaimed and laid out as farms. The manor belongs to the Castega family. Good building stone is found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £3500 with residence. The church is a fine example of the Decorated order, consists of nave, three aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire, contains a piscina, effigies of a priest and a knight, and several mural monuments, and was thoroughly restored in 1886. There is an endowed school for boys, founded in 1593, and other charities.