Sutton, Lancashire

Description
Sutton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish, in Prescot parish, Lancashire. The township is entirely within the county borough of St Helens, and around Lea Green, Sutton Oak, and St Helens Junction railway stations, 2 miles S of St Helens, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office, called Sutton Oak, under St Helens. It comprises part of the town of St Helens and the hamlet of Micklehead Green. Acreage, 3725; population, 15,668. There are numerous good residences. Coal, ironstone, limestone, and potters' clay are worked, and there are glass, bottle, cobalt, copper-smelting, earthenware, and drain-pipe works. The Rainhill County Lunatic Asylum, which was enlarged in 1886, has accommodation for nearly 2000 patients. The ecclesiastical parish includes only part of the township, and was constituted in 1848. Population, 8505. The living is a vicarage in [ the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £390. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church is in the Pointed style, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and bell-turret, and contains several stained windows. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a Roman Catholic church in the Early English style, consisting of nave, aisles, transept, and a tower with spire, the St Helens Cottage Hospital, established in 1873, two banks, and police stations.