In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Fiddlers Ferry like this:

FIDDLER'S FERRY, a place on the S border of Lancashire; on the river Mersey, adjacent to the Warrington and Garston railway, 4 miles WSW of Warrington It has a station, jointly with Penketh, on the railway.

Fiddlers Ferry through time

Fiddlers Ferry is now part of WARRINGTON Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WARRINGTON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Fiddlers Ferry itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Fiddlers Ferry, in Warrington and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26036

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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