Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PADGATE

PADGATE, a village and a chapelry in Warrington parish, Lancashire. The village stands 1 mile N of the river Mersey at the boundary with Cheshire, and 2½ N E of Warrington r. station. The chapelry was constituted in 1844; and its post town is Warrington. Pop. in 1861, 1, 510. Houses, 296. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £120. Patron, the Rector of Warrington.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Warrington CP/AP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Padgate

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