Whiston, Lancashire

Description
Whiston, a township in Prescot parish, Lancashire, on the Liverpool and Manchester railway, 1 mile S of Prescot. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Prescot, and it contains the Prescot Union Workhouse. Acreage, including Hals Nead, 1783; population, 3117. For parish council purposes it is divided into three wards, and has a council of ten members. Halsnead Hall, standing in a park of nearly 600 acres, is the seat of the Anyers-Willis family, who are lords of the manor. The ecclesiastical parish consists of part of the townships of Whiston and Tarbock, and was constituted in 1869. Population, 2634. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £295 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Prescot. The church was built in 1865, and is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and tower. There are also Free, Wesleyan, and Welsh Methodist chapels, the Prescot Sanatorium Hospital, and almshouses.