Winwick, Lancashire

Description
Winwick, a village, a township, and a parish in Lancashire. The township lies 2 miles S by E of Newton-le-Willows station on the L. & N.W.R., and 2 1/2 N of Warrington. It includes Hulme, and has a post and telegraph office under Newton-le-Willows; money order office, Wargrave. Acreage, 1440; population, 447; of the ecclesiastical parish, 687. Under the Local Government Act of 1894, Winwick and Hulme, with the addition of the township of Orford, has a parish council of six members and a chairman. The parish includes Houghton, Middleton, and Arbury township. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £1500 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Derby. The church is chiefly ancient, was partly rebuilt in 1848 and extensively improved in 1858, and has a tower with octagonal spire; it contains several monuments, brasses, and memorial windows. The endowed grammar school, founded in 1553, was closed in 1891, and the income applied by the Charity Commissioners to found scholarships in the primary schools of the parish.