SEFTO:N. 653

Kirby Rbt., blacksmith Charnock John, and farrier Martin J ames, beer house Cropper Thos., house Phillips Mr. David, Melling cottage Cross Edward, Old Parsonage nimmer Wm., nct. & farmer, White Lion Edwards Thos., Tomlinson's farm Stock Mr. Jdm, Cunscough Gregson John Sumner Wm., vict. and farmer, Hen and Gregson Wm. Chickens, Cunscough Hulme Humphrey, New house Tyrer Henry, gent., Waddicre house Hulme Jas., Carr house Willcock Geo., quarry master Huyton Thos. Ledson Daniel, Clayton's farm FAmmRS. Ledson Henry, Spencer's farm Barnes Edward, Hall wood farm Ledson Wm., MeIling house Barnes Jas., Barnes' farm Lyon James Barnes John, Hall wood farm Moorcroft Wm., Largis-house, Cunscough Barms Thos" Uoorfield house Pinnington Thos., Lyon's farm Bell John, Old bouse croft Rawlinson Rbt., The Meadows Bennett George Rushton IsabeIla Bullen David Smith William Bullen Rbt., Bank hall Taylor James

Bushell John, Cunscough hall Webster Ralphl Bradley's farm

SEFTON PARISH.

This parish is bounded on the west by the Irish sea and the mouth of the M~rsey; Of} the north and north-east. by the parish of Halsall; and on the #:\outh /lnd south-west by the parish ofWalton. Though not a veryeJftensive parish, being only seven miles in length and four in breadth, it comprises the ten townships of Sefton, , Great Crasby, Little Crosby, , , , N etherton, Orrell and , and Thorn­ ton. The river Alt, which is formed by numerous rills issuing from Fazakerley, Croxteth, Simonswood, and Kirkby, flows by Aintree. Lunt, apd Ince Blundell, on its way to the Irish sea. In wet seasons it overflows Sefton meadowl:! to a large extent, and during the inundation, appears like an arm of the sea. " It is a generally received opinion," sa.y~ Mr. Baines, H that in remote times the Ribble and Mersey formed a single estuary. The sea has frequently thrown up sand banks; and the roots of trees, supposed to be the relics of a subteranean forest, are visible at low water on the sands near Crosby." SEFTON township has a village of its own name six miles north. from . Soon after the Conquest, W illiam de Molines, ~ man of noble origin, or his son Vivian, acquired by gift of Rog.eJ.· de Poictou, the lordship of Sefton. Thornton, and Kerden, and Adam de Molyneus, son of Vivian, gave lands to the Abbey of Cockersand, under the seal of the Cross moline, a description of

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