St. Helens, a thriving manufacturing town of Lancashire, on Sankey Brook, a feeder of the Mersey, 21 m. W. by S. of Manchester; is the chief centre of the manufacture of crown, plate, and sheet glass.
Population (circa 1900) given as 71,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
St. Helena * St. Helier