Golborne, Lancashire

Description
Golborne, a township and a parish in Lancashire, on the Wigan and Newton-le-Willows branch of the L. & N.W.R., 2 miles NNE of Newton, with a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newton-le-Willows. The township formerly belonged to Winwick parish. Acreage, 1679; population, 5601. Golborne Park is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Liverpool; net yearly value, £125 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Derby. The church is a modern edifice in the Early English style, and consists of nave, south aisle, and chancel, with porch and tower. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel erected in 1863, several schools, and charities £36. There are also cotton factories, a wall-paper manufactory, and a colliery.