Seacombe, Cheshire

Description
Seacombe, a parish in Cheshire, on the river Mersey, opposite Liverpool, 1 1/2 mile NNW of Birkenhead. It was constituted an ecclesiastical parish in 1847, and a civil parish in 1884, and has a station on the Wirral railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Liverpool. Population, 10,586. The manor was held in the time of Henry VI. by the Houghs under the Pooles. A ferry to Liverpool, which is a mile across, was opened in 1879. There is an institute with reading-room, library, &c., and a cottage hospital. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £400. The church is modern, was enlarged in 1862 and again in 1891, is in the style of the 13th century, and has a tower and spire 120 feet high. There are Roman Catholic, Calvinistic and United Methodist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Wesleyan chapels.