A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BRIGHTON (New), a village and a chapelry in Wallasey parish, Cheshire. The village stands within Liscard township, on the coast, at the mouth of the Mersey, near the Lighthouse, 3½ miles N by W of Birkenhead. It enjoys a salubrious climate, commands fine bathing grounds, and is much frequented as a summer watering-place. It has a post office‡ under Birkenhead, three good hotels, numerous lodging-houses, a marine establishment for convalescents, a life-boat station, reading rooms, assembly-rooms, a church, and a Wesleyan chapel. The church was built in 1856, at a cost of about £8,000; and is in the early English style, with a tower and spire. The chapelry includes the village, and was constituted in 1861. Pop., 2,404. Houses, 367. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £600.* Patron, the Bishop.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Wallasey CP/AP Cheshire AncC |
| Place names: | BRIGHTON | BRIGHTON NEW | NEW BRIGHTON |
| Place: | New Brighton |
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