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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Appleton like this:
APPLETON, a village in Widnes township, Prescot parish, Lancashire; near St. Helen's railway, the Sankey canal, and the river Mersey, 6½ miles NNW of Warrington. It has a station on the railway, a post office under Warrington, a Wesleyan chapel, and a Roman Catholic chapel.
Appleton is now part of HALTON Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how HALTON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Appleton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Appleton, in Halton and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25725
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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