Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for POULTON-CUM-SPITTLE

POULTON-CUM-SPITTLE, a township in Bebington parish, Cheshire; on the Chester and Birkenhead railway, 4½ miles S by E of Birkenhead. It has a station, of the name of Spittle, on the railway; and it contains Wirralworkhouse, which had 123 inmates at the census of 1861. Acres, 954. Real property, £2, 770. Pop., 360. Houses,


(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: Bebington CP/AP       Cheshire AncC
Place: Poulton

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