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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Padgate like this:
PADGATE, a village and a chapelry in Warrington parish, Lancashire. The village stands 1 mile N of the river Mersey at the boundary with Cheshire, and 2½ N E of Warrington r. station. The chapelry was constituted in 1844; and its post town is Warrington. Pop. in 1861, 1, 510. Houses, 296. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £120. Patron, the Rector of Warrington.
Padgate is now part of WARRINGTON Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WARRINGTON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Padgate itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Padgate, in Warrington and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24754
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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