St Helens owes its name to a chapel of ease, some 12 miles east of Liverpool, and its development into a major town to its rich underlying coal seams and to its water-courses which, forming the Sankey Brook, flow into the Mersey. St Helens was thus linked to the Mersey and England's first industrial canal was built and urban growth was triggered. " ...like other Lancashire volumes in the Phillimore series, it is of excellent quality ..." Lancashire Local Historian
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St Helens owes its name to a chapel of ease, some 12 miles east of Liverpool, and its development into a major town to its rich underlying coal seams and to its water-courses which, forming the Sankey Brook, flow into the Mersey. St Helens was thus linked to the Mersey and England's first industrial canal was built and urban growth was triggered. " ...like other Lancashire volumes in the Phillimore series, it is of excellent quality ..." Lancashire Local Historian
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