Maghull, Lancashire

Description
Maghull, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Hal-sail parish, Lancashire, on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 5 miles SSW of Ormskirk, with a station on the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Southport branch of the L. & Y.R.,and another on the Cheshire Lines Committee railway. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Liverpool. Acreage of township, 2098; population, 1422. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £282 with residence. Patron, the Eector of Halsall. The church is a building in the Early English style, erected in 1878-80 near the old church, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, N porch, and an embattled western tower. A Roman Catholic chapel was built in 1890, and there are also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.