Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FAIRFIELD

FAIRFIELD, a chapelry in West Derby parish, Lancashire; suburban to Liverpool, 1 mile from Old Swan, and 2½ NE of the centre of Liverpool. It was constituted in 1854; and it has a post office under Liverpool. Pop., 4, 289. Houses, 727. There are numerous villas. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, not reported.* Patrons, the Bushby Family. The church is a fine building.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: West Derby AP/CP/Ch       Lancashire AncC
Place: Fairfield

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