In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Halewood like this:
HALEWOOD, a township in Childwall parish, and a chapelry partly also in Haytor parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the Garston and Warrington railway, near the river Mersey, 5½ miles E of Garston; includes the hamlet of Hale Bank; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Liverpool. ...
Acres, 3, 759. Real property, £7, 250. Pop. in 1851, 1, 146; in 1861, 1, 205. Houses, 219. The manor belongs to the Earl of Derby. The chapelry includes only part of the township, and was constituted in 1844. Pop. in 1861, 1, 184. Houses, 214. Pop. of the part in H. township, 835. Houses, 149. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value, £300.* Patron, the Vicar of Childwall. The church was built in 1839, and enlarged in 1847; and is in the early English style. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.
Halewood through time
Halewood is now part of Knowsley district. Click here for graphs and data of how Knowsley has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Halewood itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Halewood, in Knowsley and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10300
Date accessed: 28th April 2024
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