Description
Howick, a township in Penwortham parish, Lancashire, near the river Ribble, 2 1/2 miles SW of Preston, with a station on the West Lancashire railway. Post town, money order, and telegraph office, Preston. Acreage, 754, of which 144 are water; population, 101. Howick Hall, a neat edifice, embosomed in wood, is the seat of the Wrigley family.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
