Newton-in-Makerfield

Newton-in-Makerfield (otherwise NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS), with its suburb of Earistown, a thriving town of Lancashire, 16 miles E. of Liver- pool and 16 W. of Manchester. An important railway junction, it has rapidly increased in size, and large printing-works, paper-mills, iron-foundries, and a sugar-refinery are here in operation, whilst numbers of hands are employed in the making of bricks and railway wagons. Near to the town is a fine racecourse on which a meeting is held annually in July. At Parkside, $\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ mile distant, the Right Hon. W. Huskisson met with the accident which caused his death, on the occasion (15th September 1830) of the opening of the railway. Newton returned two members to parliament from 1558 to 1832, when it was disfranchised. Pop. (1801) 1455; (1881) 10,580; (1891) 12,861.