| Cronton | |
  Cronton shown within Merseyside |
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| Population | 1,379 (2001 Census) |
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| OS grid reference | |
| - London | 171 miles (275 km) SE |
| Metropolitan borough | Knowsley |
| Metropolitan county | Merseyside |
| Region | North West |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | WIDNES |
| Postcode district | WA8 |
| Dialling code | 0151 |
| Police | Merseyside |
| Fire | Merseyside |
| Ambulance | North West |
| European Parliament | North West England |
| UK Parliament | Knowsley South |
| List of places: UK • England • Merseyside | |
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History
Cronton is an ancient village and was once a centre for the makers of watch parts and movements. There is an ancient cross, now no more than a column of stone on ruined steps. This was one of many stopping places on the way to the parish church at Farnworth. Farnworth is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. The five-holed stocks next to the war memorial in Coronation Gardens are almost unique to Cronton with few other specimens found anywhere. Many of the 19th Century residents of Cronton were farmers. There was a blacksmith in Cronton Lane (opposite what is now the Black Horse pub). Family names common in Cronton during the 19th Century census returns: Leather, Haughton, Critchley, Dwerryhouse, Atherton, Glover and Lister. The Catholic Church, Holy Family, was opened at the start of the 20th Century. There is also Holy Family Primary school. Prior to this, many Cronton Catholics were carried to St Bartholomew's in Rainhill for burial. Rainhill is a Civil parish and large village in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England.
In the early twentieth century, Cronton was “a favourite resort for cyclists and picnic parties, both from Liverpool and Widnes, on account of a public recreation ground on Pexhill. This hill, rising to only 200 ft. above sea level, is covered with heather and gorse, and on the top are the Widnes Corporation reservoirs, formed in 1868”. [1] Today the Liverpool Astronomical Society have an Observatory - Leighton Observatory - at Pex Hill. The Liverpool Astronomical Society was founded in 1880 in Liverpool, England, as a society to promote and coordinate amateur astronomy It was formerly known as Pex Hill Observatory and Visitors' Centre.
The village has grown since the 1950s but in recent years has slowed with very little new housing development as it is surrounded by Green Belt. The village has two primary schools and just over the border in Widnes is Riverside College Halton (formerly Widnes sixth-form college and then renamed Widnes and Runcorn sixth-form college with the advent of another campus being added in Runcorn). Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port within the borough of Halton in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England
Two pubs are located in the village, The Unicorn and The Black Horse. Cronton is the location of Pex Hill JFC which is a fast growing junior football club that utilises the Holy Family Club as its social club.
Nearby stood Cronton Colliery which ceased production in March 1984, shortly before the Great UK miners' strike (1984–1985). The miners' strike of 1984 – 1985 was a major Industrial action affecting the British coal industry. Although Cronton 'pit' was a twentieth century enterprise, the surrounding area had been supported a coal mining industry throughout the previous century. Indeed, it was in the 19th century that a large number of Welsh people moved nearby to work 'down the pit' and they brought their distinctive brand of Non-Conformist Christianity with them. Nonconformism is the refusal to conform to common standards conventions rules customs traditions norms or laws Indeed, there was once at least 31 non-conformist chapels within just three miles of Cronton, including three Welsh chapels (Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian) in Widnes, Welsh Calvinistic Methodists in Huyton Quarry, and a Welsh Methodist in Whiston. Congregationalist polity, often known as congregationalism is a system of Church governance in which every Local church congregation is independent Presbyterianism is a family of Christian denominations within the Reformed branch of Protestant Western Christianity Calvinistic Methodists are a body of Christians forming the Presbyterian Church of Wales and claiming to be the only denomination of the Presbyterian order Huyton is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, in Merseyside, England. [2] Methodism was especially strong in coal-mining communities and Cronton had its own Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Chapel Lane. This chapel still exists and now forms part of the Liverpool District (Widnes Circuit) of the Methodist Church. The Methodist Church of Great Britain or British Methodist Church is the largest Wesleyan / Methodist body in the United Kingdom, with congregations
Cronton Colliery
Cronton colliers mined the pit's first coal during the Great War in 1915. Cronton thrived and the pit was one of 65 Lancashire collieries at the time of nationalisation. Mainly because of the exhaustion of economically-viable reserves, the number of Lancashire collieries had been reduced to 41 by 1962. Five years later this had fallen to 21. By the time Cronton colliery finally closed in 1984 it had been making heavy financial losses for many years and the remaining coal reserves were both limited and difficult to mine. Local coal miners were offered alternative jobs at one of the seven remaining Lancashire collieries. (The last Lancashire deep-pit to close was Parkside Colliery in 1993).
The 43 hectare colliery site lay completely derelict for years until it was acquired by English Partnerships, the government’s national regeneration agency, as part of the National Coalfield Programme. In 1995 the site was partially restored by removing both the colliery infrastructure and major earthworks, and then reclaiming colliery spoil by mixing it with paper mill crumb (provided by Brigewater newsprint mill in Ellesmere Port) and sewage cake to create soils for successful woodland planting.
The colliery site’s ownership was transferred to the Northwest Regional Development Agency in 1999 but it will pass the Land Reclamation Trust in the autumn of 2007. The site has a future as public access land, probably as a new ‘country park’. To help improve nutrient-poor topsoil conditions, which are currently hindering plant development, compost made from recycled garden waste will be added. The aim is to help improve local biodiversity; establish sustainable, low-maintenance native plant communities; and encourage natural wildlife habitats.
Governance
From 1974, Cronton has been one of six civil parishes within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, in the metropolitan county of Merseyside, and its boundaries fall within the Whiston South ward for election of Borough councillors. A civil parish in the United Kingdom is a unit of local government. The Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley is a Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England. The metropolitan counties are a type of county-level Administrative division of England. Merseyside is a Metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1365900 Whiston is an area within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England, situated approximately east of Liverpool city centre In Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, a ward is an Electoral district From 1894 until the local government reorganisation of 1974, Cronton was part of Whiston Rural District within the administrative county of Lancashire. Administrative counties were a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government from 1889 to 1974 Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea [3] Before this Cronton was a township and civil parish, part of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Prescot in West Derby Hundred within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire. Prescot is a town and Civil parish, within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley on Merseyside, England. The hundred of West Derby (sometimes known as West Derbyshire) was an ancient division of the historic county of Lancashire, England The historic counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England.
Transport links
Cronton village is on the A5080, which links Edge Hill in Liverpool to Penketh on the outskirts of Warrington. List of A roads beginning with 5 in Great Britain starting north/east of the A5, west of the A6, south of the Solway Firth / Eden Estuary Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary Warrington is a large town borough and Unitary authority area in Cheshire, England. It lies 1. 1 miles from Junction 7 on the M62 motorway. The M62 motorway is a west&ndasheast trans-Pennine Motorway in northern England, connecting the cities of Liverpool and Hull Hough Green railway station, on the Liverpool to Warrington line, is 1. Hough Green railway station is a Railway station in the north of Widnes in Halton unitary authority in the north west of England. 4 miles away.
References
- ^ 'Townships: Cronton', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3 (1907), pp. 392-94. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=41353;
- ^ GENUKI;
- ^ Youngs, F. , Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 689;
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