Parbold, Lancashire

Description
Parbold, a township in Eccleston parish, Lancashire, near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 5 1/2 miles NW by W of Wigan. It has a station on the L. & Y.R. and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Southport. Acreage, 1159 ; population, 598. Parbold Hall is a chief residence. Parbold Hill commands good views of the Isle of Man and to the mountains of Wales and Cumberland. For ecclesiastical purposes the township is in the parish of Douglas, and contains the parish church, which is a building in the Early English style, consecrated in 1875, and consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and an embattled tower with spire. There is also a Roman Catholic church, erected in 1884 at a cost of about £12,000, with chancel, nave, aisles, and fine tower. There are some good stone quarries, and bricks are made.