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 {| !  !! Miles. !! 1st Class. || 2nd Class.
 * + WARRINGTON STATION.
 * | Distant from L'pool & Manchester || 19½ || 4s. 0d. || 3s. 0d.
 * | Distant from Birmingham || 77¾ || 10s. 6d. || 11s. 6d.
 * }
 * | Distant from Birmingham || 77¾ || 10s. 6d. || 11s. 6d.
 * }

From this Station. Runcorn lies 4 miles west; Altrincham, 12 miles east. Except, however, he is travelling by a first class train, we should advise the traveller who is desirous to go to Runcorn, to alight at the Moore Station.

We shall now proceed to give a short account of

WARRINGTON. It is a market town and parish, in the hundred of West Derby; the population of the parish is 19,155; of the town, 16,018. An. Ass. Val. £29,069. Its principal manufactures are, cottons, sail-cloth, hardwares, files, pins, and glass. Its public buildings are, a town-hall, market-ball, and cloth-hall. It has assembly-rooms, a theatre, gas-works, and a dispensary. Its markets are on Wednesday and Saturday; it has two fairs, for horses, horned cattle, and cloth, viz., on July 18 and November 30 (St. Andrew's), and a fair every Wednesday fortnight for cattle. Whittaker asserts, that it was formerly a Roman station, but as the ancient name of the town was