Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GRASSENDALE

GRASSENDALE, a chapelry in Childwall parish, Lancashire; near the Liverpool and Manchester railway, 4 miles E of Liverpool. It was constituted in 1855; and it has a post office‡ under Liverpool. Rated property, £8, 695. Pop., 912. Houses, 137. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, not reported. Patrons, Trustees. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Childwall AP/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Grassendale

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