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| The Official Guide Issued by Authority of the NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
LORD NEWTON'S CREST
Out of a ducal coronet or, a ram's head argent, armed or, in the mouth a slip of laurel proper, over all a pallet wavy azure. |
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Newton in Makerfield Is a populace and rapidly - improving locality, containing several important industrial and manufacturing establishments. The town of Newton consists chiefly of one long and broad street, pleasantly situated on a gentle eminence, and commanding extensive and panoramic views. It is about five miles from St. Helens, seven from Wigan, and near the important Railway Station of Newton Bridge. The extensive printing establishment of Messrs. McCorquodale is near the station, and in its immediate vicinity its a first- class Hotel, while the fine old Corn mill on the brook, a few yards distant, seems to preserve for the spot a good deal of charm of a quiet and homely serenity. |
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THE EARLY DAYS - 1830.
George Stephenson had made many improvements to the Steam Locomotive, the Stockton and Darlington Railway had been in operation for five years, and in the same year the Vulcan Foundry came into being, founded by Charles Tayleur in partnership with George Stephenson and his son Robert, and trading as "Tayleur & Stephenson". |
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Found some great history about Burtonwood while surfing:-
Burtonwood is a village between the towns of St Helens and Warrington, whose history stretches back into the thirteenth century and probably further. The population has always been small in number, yet Burtonwood, for such a small village, is well known for two phenomena: its American connection and its beer!. |
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Devices and Armorial Bearings of the Barons of Newton and their Kindred.
This is a fragment of the seal of Warin Banastre, son of Robert Banastre, and heir to his brother Richard, who died 23rd April, 1205.
This seal was appended to a grant in " Waletona," to one Alured, and is amongst the muniments of the Leghs of Lyme, which have supplied most of the seals here engraved. | 
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On 1st March 1853, the London and North Western Railway, under the direction of Sir Hardman Earle, leased from Messrs. Jones & Potts a small works known as the Viaduct Foundry, so named for its proximity to Stephensons famous viaduct carrying the Liverpool and Manchester Railway over the St. Helens Canal. |
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