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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Old Swan like this:
OLD SWAN, a village in Stanley chapelry, West Derby township and parish, Lancashire; 3 miles E of Liverpool. It has a post-office‡ under Liverpool, St. Oswald's Roman Catholic chapel, and St. Anne's national school; and in its neighbourhood are glass-works, a rope manufactory, and borax works.
Old Swan is now part of LIVERPOOL District. Click here for graphs and data of how LIVERPOOL has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Old Swan itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Old Swan, in Liverpool and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25808
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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