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      This site is dedicated to the memory of Steven Dowd.

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      All Saints Church Barons of Newton Bewton Glass Works Bloody Stone Bowling Club Burial Mound Burtonwood Burtonwood Airbase Burtonwood Brewery Collins Green Cricket Club Crow Lane Hall Dean School Earlestown Earlestown Market Football J H Lane Liverpool Manchester Railway Local Churches Lord Newton M6 Motorway Market and Fairs Newton-in-Mackerfield Newton Gold Cup Newton Hall Newton le Willows Newton Poems Newton Station Nine Arches Old Newton Races Railway Sankey Canal Sankey Viaduct Sir Hardman Earle Stephenson St Michaels Church St Oswalds St Peters Tennis Club Viaduct Foundry Viaduct Wagon Works Vulcan Foundry Winwick Winwick Church \mabs Cross Legend

      • History of Newton in Makerfield
      • Local Church build dates
      • Newton Guide from c1967
      • The Vulcan Foundry Ltd, 5th MAY 1954
      • £200 REWARD – Red Bank Highwayman
      • Roman Road – Archaeologists Evaluation Dig
      • The Curzon Cinema, 28th October, 1935
      • Nobel Prize for local born man
      • 1800 Highway Robbery, Winwick, Red Bank Mill
      • Emmetts Brow and Earlestown Wagon Works
      • The History of Newton Hall
      • Randalls Nurseries / The Arch, Newton High St
      • A visit to the works of the Vulcan Foundry, 1927
      • Vulcan to Warrington: The Roman Road
      • ST. John the Baptist, Earlestown Parish Church
      • Castle Hill (Road)
      • Tommy Burns jump off the 9 Arches?
      • The Newton in Makerfield Volunteers
      • Rokeden – Poem by J H Lane
      • History of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
      • War Memorial Hospital
      • Newton-in-the-Willows
      • 1872 – Vulcan Foundry Rules
      • Newton Hall & Crow Lane Hall
      • Anti-German Riot In Earlestown
      • BOB CARLISLE – “The Walker”
      • Sankey Viaduct and Embankment
      • The M6 Motorway
      • Sites of Interest: East of Newton-le-Willows
      • Sankey Navigation – The first canal
      • Tales of Old Newton Races
      • Burtonwood
      • Earlestown: A History
      • The Battle of Winwick Pass, 19 Aug 1648
      • The Sankey Viaduct ( Nine Arches Bridge )
      • The Manchester and Liverpool Rail-Road
      • The Bloody Stone & Mabs Cross Legend
      • Newton le Willows in Verse – J H Lane
      • Newton-in-Makerfield: P.Mannex & Co. 1871
      • Burtonwood: Agricultural Draining Match – 1853
      • Earlestown Wagon Works
      • The Fee of Makerfield
      • Tumuli at Winwick, 1860
      • Congregational Church on Crow Lane
      • Locomotives or Stationary Engines
      • Sir Hardman Earle (1792 – 1877)
      • Newton-le-Willows Official Guide
      • The Viaduct Foundry
      • James Muspratt (1793 – 1896)
      • William Huskisson (1770 – 1830)

      All Saints Church Barons of Newton Bewton Glass Works Bloody Stone Bowling Club Burial Mound Burtonwood Burtonwood Airbase Burtonwood Brewery Collins Green Cricket Club Crow Lane Hall Dean School Earlestown Earlestown Market Football J H Lane Liverpool Manchester Railway Local Churches Lord Newton M6 Motorway Market and Fairs Newton-in-Mackerfield Newton Gold Cup Newton Hall Newton le Willows Newton Poems Newton Station Nine Arches Old Newton Races Railway Sankey Canal Sankey Viaduct Sir Hardman Earle Stephenson St Michaels Church St Oswalds St Peters Tennis Club Viaduct Foundry Viaduct Wagon Works Vulcan Foundry Winwick Winwick Church \mabs Cross Legend

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      This website is dedicated to the memory of Steven Dowd, who sadly passed away in 2026. Steven created newton-le-willows.com to preserve and share the history of Newton-in-Makerfield, Earlestown, Burtonwood and the surrounding districts. It is now maintained by the site administrator and overseen by the Dowd family.

      Steven was grateful to Cheshire Archives and Local Studies and Lancashire Archives for granting permission to display selected images from their collections. These include parish and church records, census returns, historic documents, and Ordnance Survey map extracts relating to the local area. Where applicable, these materials are subject to Crown Copyright and remain the property of the respective archive. They are reproduced here with permission for historical research and educational use.

      Article images, historic postcard images, and all transcribed text published on this website were prepared and transcribed by Steven Dowd. These are subject to copyright: ©2001–2026 Steven Dowd – newton-le-willows.com – All rights reserved.

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