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Newton-le-Willows is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England. The population at the 2021 census was 24,642. [ 2 ] Newton-le-Willows is on the eastern edge of St Helens, south of Wigan and north of Warrington , equidistant to Liverpool and Manchester .
BR Class 40 no D213 Andania was one of a hundred and eighty members of the class to be built at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows. The British Rail Class 40's were built both at Vulcan Foundry and Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns in Darlington. D213 Andania stood in Crewe with a railtour, is one of the 180 class 40's built at Vulcan Foundry.
Robert Stephenson FRS, HonFRSE, FRSA, DCL (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", [2] he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century.
The racecourse is set in an area of parkland bounded by the towns of Haydock to the west, Ashton-in-Makerfield to the north, Golborne to the east and Newton-le-Willows to the south. Horse racing had been run in Newton for many years (the great racemare Queen of Trumps won at Newton in 1836), [2] and the venue was also used for hare coursing in ...
Pages in category "People from Newton-le-Willows" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Newton-le-Willows is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Bedale. [2] [3] Historically, it is part of the North Riding of Yorkshire and the Wapentake of Hang East. [4] Newton-le-Willows used to have a railway station on the Wensleydale Railway.
Newton-le-Willows has held a market by Royal Charter since the 14th century. By the 1890s, the Earlestown area of Newton-le-Willows had outgrown the older part of the town and so the market was moved to its current location in Earlestown and the market square is the town's centre-piece.
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