Earlestown Town Hall

The Viaduct seen from the Sankey Valley Country Park

Detail of the viaduct from third arch

Earlestown forms the western part of the former urban district of Newton-le-Willows, but is now in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England. Download high resolution version (1578x1839, 297 KB)Earlestown town hall, photograph taken by Lmno on 16 Oct 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (1578x1839, 297 KB)Earlestown town hall, photograph taken by Lmno on 16 Oct 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (1728x2304, 1341 KB)Viaduct seen from valley, photograph taken by Lmno on 9 Oct 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (1728x2304, 1341 KB)Viaduct seen from valley, photograph taken by Lmno on 9 Oct 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (1728x2304, 801 KB)Detail of Stephensons Viaduct from 3rd arch (which crossed the Sankey Canal). ... Download high resolution version (1728x2304, 801 KB)Detail of Stephensons Viaduct from 3rd arch (which crossed the Sankey Canal). ... Location within the British Isles. ... St Helens is a Metropolitan Borough in Merseyside, North West England. ... Arms of the former Merseyside Metropolitan County Council Merseyside is a county, located in the North West of England. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ...

The town is named after Hardman Earle (11 July 1792 - 25 January 1877) who was the Chairman of the London and North Western Railway. The railway leased the Viaduct Foundry from Messrs. Jones and Potts. The foundry was so named because of its proximity to the viaduct Stephenson built so that the Liverpool and Manchester Railway could cross the Sankey valley. The foundry became ever busier and the houses that were constructed to house its workers became the town. The other major employer was coal mining. The Loco Works was called Vulcan Foundry and the houses, constructed to house it's workers, were called 'Vulcan Village'. This village is separate to Earlestown, about a mile and a half away towards Winwick. July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) was formed in 1846 by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, London and Birmingham and Manchester and Birmingham. ... Jones, Turner and Evans was a Locomotive manufacturer in Newton-le-Willows, England. ... The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was the worlds first intercity passenger railway in which all the trains were timetabled and operated for most of the distance solely by steam locomotives. ... Coal Coal (IPA: ) is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by underground mining or open-pit mining (surface mining). ...

In 1862 locomotive building was concentrated on Crewe, while Earlestown became the major wagon works. By 1900 it was producing 4000 new wagons, with 13000 major repairs, along with 200 new horse-drawn vehicles. At amalgamation into the LMS, mass production methods were introduced. The works provided all of the railway's needs for ironwork, and continued into the first half of the twentieth century. At the 1963 rationalisation of British Railways, Earlestown was closed, and the work transferred to Horwich. 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ... Crewe railway works was set up in the 1800s by the Grand Junction Railway in the town of Crewe, in the county of Cheshire, in the north west of England. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS1) was a British railway company. ... Mass production is the production of large amounts of standardised products on production lines. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system, from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997. ... Horwich railway works was built in 1886 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in the town of Horwich in Greater Manchester when it moved from its original works at Miles Platting. ...

Earlestown has a market, an impressive town hall and a railway station with frequent services to Liverpool, Manchester, Warrington and North Wales. Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ... Manchester is a major city within Greater Manchester in North West England, historically notable for being the worlds first industrialised city, and its subsequent central role in the Industrial Revolution. ... Warrington is the largest town and borough in the county of Cheshire, in the North-West of England. ... Motto: (Welsh for Wales forever) Anthem: Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff Official language(s) Welsh, English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Rhodri Morgan AM Unification    - by Gruffudd ap Llywelyn 1056  Area    - Total 20,779...

Earlestown also has a town centre containing many shops, a scattering of pubs and even a nightclub called Xenon (Also known as Chasers).

Earlestown is also well located as far as the road network is concerned, being close to junction 9 of the M62 motorway, junctions 21A, 22 and 23 of the M6 motorway, and the A580 East Lancashire Manchester-Liverpool road. The M62 motorway connects the cities of Liverpool and Hull, in England. ... This article concerns the M6 motorway in England. ...

External links

• www.earlestown.com
• www.newton-le-willows.com

Coordinates: 53°27′N 2°39′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...