Haydock, Lancashire

Description
Haydock, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Ash-ton-in-Makerfield parish, Lancashire, 2 miles from Earlstown junction station on the L. & N.W.R., with a post, money order, and telegraph office under St Helens. The township is governed by a local board of nine members. Acreage, 2409; population of the township, 6535; of the ecclesiastical parish, 6017. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1864. The living is a vicarage in 1/2he diocese of Liverpool; net value, £306 with residence. The church, built in 1867, and enlarged in 1891, is a building in the modern Gothic style. There are Wesleyan, Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Baptist, and Roman Catholic chapels. There are extensive coal-mines in this parish, a private lunatic asylum, and a cottage hospital. The lord of the manor is chief landowner.