Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ELTON

ELTON, a township in Thornton-le-Moors parish, Cheshire; adjacent to the Hooton and Helsby railway, near the river Mersey, 4 miles WSW of Frodsham. Acres, 1, 090. Real property, £2, 131. Pop., 190. Houses, 37. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Elton Tn/CP       Thornton le Moors CP/AP       Cheshire AncC
Place: Elton

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