Bartonon Irwell

Barton-on-Irwell, a town in Lancashire, on the river Irwell, over which the Bridgewater canal is carried by an aqueduct, being the first work of that kind carried out in England. It is about 6 miles from Manchester on the Liverpool Railway. There are factories for silk and cotton and extensive ironworks. The Roman Catholic church is a good specimen of Pugin's skill.