Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rainhill

Rainhill, eccl. dist. and township with ry. sta., Prescot par., SW. Lancashire, 8½ miles E. of Liverpool - dist., pop. 2974; township, 1640 ac., pop 2219; P.O., T.O.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ecclesiastical district and township with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Rainhill Tn/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Rainhill

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