Lowton, Lancashire

Description
Lowton, a village and a parish in Lancashire. The village stands 2 miles NE from Newton-le-Willows, 3 SW by W of Leigh, and has a station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newton-le-Willows. The parish includes the ecclesiastical parish of Lowton St Mary, with a station on the M.S. & L.R., and comprises 1830 acres; population, 2657; of the ecclesiastical parish of St Luke, 1628; of St Mary, 1029. Lowton Hall and Byrom Hall are ancient mansions, now used as farmhouses. The head living is a rectory, and that of St Mary is a vicarage, in the diocese of Liverpool; value of the rectory, £328 with residence; of the vicarage, £203 (gross) with residence. Patron of the former, the Earl of Derby. The parish church is an old building of brick and stone in the Early English style. St Mary's Church was erected in 1861, is a stone structure in the Early English style, and consists of nave, aisle, and chancel, with porch and belfry. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.