Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Thornton

Thornton, township, Sefton par., SW. Lancashire, 6½ miles N. of Liverpool, 774 ac., pop. 275.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Sefton CP/AP       Thornton Tn/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Thornton

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