Roberttown

ROBERTOWN, or Robert-Town, a chapelry in Birstall parish

Roberttown All Saints

Roberttown All Saints was in 1875 constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish.
The church of All Saints in erected in 1845, is a building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave, with a bell-cot at the west-end containing two bells; the east window of three lights is a memorial to the Rev H. Walton, incumbent of this church in 1845-1846 and was placed in 1879.
The register dates from 1845. The living is a vicarage, yearly value of £156 with residence in the gift of the vicar of Birstal and held by the Rev John Wannop Nixon of St Bees.
Here are Brickyards, Card Manufactories, Chemical works and Thread works.
The area is 910 acres; the population in 1871 was 3,045.