In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described New Brighton like this:
BRIGHTON (New), a village and a chapelry in Wallasey parish, Cheshire. The village stands within Liscard township, on the coast, at the mouth of the Mersey, near the Lighthouse, 3½ miles N by W of Birkenhead. It enjoys a salubrious climate, commands fine bathing grounds, and is much frequented as a summer watering-place. ...
It has a post office‡ under Birkenhead, three good hotels, numerous lodging-houses, a marine establishment for convalescents, a life-boat station, reading rooms, assembly-rooms, a church, and a Wesleyan chapel. The church was built in 1856, at a cost of about £8,000; and is in the early English style, with a tower and spire. The chapelry includes the village, and was constituted in 1861. Pop., 2,404. Houses, 367. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £600.* Patron, the Bishop.
New Brighton through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of New Brighton, in Wirral and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21561
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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