Southport, a watering-place of Lancashire, situated on the southern shore of the Ribble estuary, 18 m. N. of Liverpool; is a town of quite modern growth and increasing popularity; has a fine sea-shore, esplanade, park, theatre, public library, art gallery, etc.
Population (circa 1900) given as 41,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Southey, Robert * Southwark