Ditton, Lancashire

Description
Ditton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Prescot civil parish, Lancashire, on the Warrington and Liverpool section of the L. & N.W.R., 1 1/2 mile NNW of Runcorn. The township includes Hough Green hamlet, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Widnes, and a railway station. Acreage, 1938; population, 2247 ; of the ecclesiastical parish, 2420. Ditton Hall, formerly the seat of the Hon. Mrs Stapleton-Bretherton, has since 1872 been used as .a college for Jesuit refugees, and in connection with it a church was erected in 1876 at a cost of about £20,000. The parish church was opened in 1871, and is a building in the Decorated style. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £95 with residence, in the gift of five trustees. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a Roman Catholic school, and a county police station.