Parr, Lancashire

Description
Parr, a village, a township, and two ecclesiastical parishes in Prescot parish, Lancashire. The village stands near the Sankey Canal, the St Helens railway, and the Liverpool and Manchester railway, 1 1/2 mile ESE of St Helens station, and has a post and money order office under St Helens; telegraph office, St Helens. The township is wholly within the borough of St Helens, and contains also the hamlets of Parr Flats, Parr Stocks, Ashton Green, and Blackbrook. Acreage, 1606 of land and 27 of water; population, 13,203. The manor belonged anciently to the family of Pan, one of whom was Sir Thomas Parr. There are extensive collieries, and large alkali and copper works. The ecclesiastical parishes are St Peter's (constituted in 1844; population, 8030) and Holy Trinity, Parr Mount (constituted in 1863 ; population, 7780). The livings are vicarages in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £328 and £293 respectively, both with residence. Patron, the vicar of St Helens. The church of St Peter was built in 1865, in room of a previous one destroyed by fire, but on a different site; it consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S transept, and tower with spire. Holy Trinity Church, built in 1857, is a building in the Gothic style. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, Baptist, and Free Gospel chapels, and a Roman Catholic chapel and a convent at Blackbrook. A free library has recently been erected at Parr Stocks.