Place:


Hanging Birch  Lancashire

 

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

HANGING-BIRCH, a hamlet in Widnes township, Prescot parish, Lancashire; 4¼ miles SE of Prescot.

Additional information about this locality is available for Widnes

Hanging Birch through time

Hanging Birch is now part of Halton district. Click here for graphs and data of how Halton has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hanging Birch itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hanging Birch, in Halton and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25501

Date accessed: 23rd April 2024


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