Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CROSSENS

CROSSENS, a chapelry in North Meols parish, Lancashire; on the coast, at the mouth of the Ribble's estuary, 3½ miles NE by N of Southport r. station. It was constituted in 1860; and it has a post office under South-port. Rated property, £3, 762. Pop., 756. Houses, 155. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £260.* Patron s, 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: North Meols AP/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Crossens

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