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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Culceth like this:
CULCHETH, a township and a sub-district in Leigh district, Lancashire. The township is in Newchurch-Kenyon parish; lies on the Liverpool and Manchester railway, 3 miles S of Leigh; and has a church, Methodist chapels, an endowed school for boys and girls, and charities £49. Acres, 5, 361. Real property, £10, 339. Pop., 2, 214. Houses, 444. Culcheth Hall is the seat of the Withingtons. -The sub-district includes also two townships of Leigh parish. Acres, 10, 427. Pop., 10, 881. Houses, 2, 204.
Culceth is now part of WARRINGTON Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WARRINGTON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Culceth itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Culceth, in Warrington and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10071
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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