. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED WINWICK One of the great roads from south to north has from the earliest times led through Winwick, Newton, and Ash ton, and there are several tumuli and other ancient remains. The Domesday Survey shows that a large part of the surface consisted of woodland, and Garswood in Ashton preserves the name of part of it. In the Civil War two battles were fought near Winwick. In more modern times coal mines have been worked and manufactures introduced, and Earlestown has grown up around the wagon-building works of
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED WINWICK One of the great roads from south to north has from the earliest times led through Winwick, Newton, and Ash ton, and there are several tumuli and other ancient remains. The Domesday Survey shows that a large part of the surface consisted of woodland, and Garswood in Ashton preserves the name of part of it. In the Civil War two battles were fought near Winwick. In more modern times coal mines have been worked and manufactures introduced, and Earlestown has grown up around the wagon-building works of the London and North-Western Railway Company. The agricultural land in the parish is utilized as follows :—Arable land, 16,258 acres ; permanent grass, 4,820 acres ; woods and plantations, 653 acres. The following are details :— Winwick 2,192 2+7 25 Southworth and Croft . . i,i;96 130 — Newton in Makerfield . . 1,614 +23 17 Lowton 960 570 — Haydock ',244. 4" 72 Golborne 951 448 16 Ashton in Makerfield . . 3,228 1,210 433 Culcheth and ICenyon . . 4,473 1,381 90 Newton has given the title of baron to the lord of the manor, who has, however, no residence in the parish ; Lord Gerard of Brynn has his principal seat at Garswood. Dr. Kuerden thus describes a journey through the parish made about 1695 :—' Entering a little hamlet called the Hulme you leave on the left a deep and fair stone quarry fit for building. You meet with another crossway on the right. A mile farther stands a fair-built church called Winwick church, a remark- able fabric. . Leaving the church on the right about a quarter of a mile westwards stands a princely . building, equal to the revenue, called the parsonage of Winwick ; and near the church on the right hand stands a fair-built schoolhouse. By the east end of the church is another road, but less used, to the borough of Wigan. ' Having passed the school about half a mile you come to a sandy place called the Red Bank, where Hamilton and his army
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