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Lowton is a suburban village within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It is around from Leigh, south of Wigan and west of Manchester city centre. The settlement lies across the A580 East Lancashire Road. Historically a part of Lancashire, Lowton's history is closely connected with Byrom Manor, ancestral home of the Byroms, a family which included poet John Byrom, inventor of a system of shorthand. Lowton was associated with coal mining and manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution, given its proximity to several nearby collieries and factories. ==History== Lowton has an unclear toponymy: it is from Old English ''tun'' "farm, village" with an uncertain first element (The first element is from lhe old English for high point IE Wornoth Low near Stockport is the highest hill in the area, and Lowton is the highest point locally.) A record of the name as ''Liewetune'' in 1176 suggests Old English ''hleowe'' "lee", although this is not a certain etymology. Lowton was one of the berewicks of the Royal Manor of Newton, later being one of the members of the Barony of Makerfield.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= British History Online )〕 Byrom Manor, later to feature the ancestral home of the poet John Byrom and was constructed during the 18th century, is recorded as early as 1212,〔 where the family prospered for centuries. Byrom Hall at one time featured a moat.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Lowton History - History and Photographs of Lowton and district (1) )〕 The Hare and Hounds public house, built in the 17th century, was once used as a place to hold trials of local criminals, including murders. In 1830 Parkside, Newton-le-Willows, near Lowton, was the site of the world's first fatal passenger train crash, when Liverpool MP William Huskisson was killed after being hit by George Stephenson's Rocket locomotive during the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lowton History - Hoskinsson )〕 The former Lowton railway station was used as a resting point for the royal train.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lowton History - Transport )〕 Lowton had a second station - Lowton St Mary's - which closed in 1964. Lowton had a toffee factory,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lowton History - History and Photographs of Lowton and district (2) )〕 along with other sites of heavy industry. Many of these factories have now closed and have been replaced with light industry. Lowton's Sandy Lane is reputedly haunted by the ghost of Joshua Rigby, a local farmer who died in 1883.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lowtonandgolbornelocal.co.uk/historyresult.php?title=The-Ghost-of-Sandy-Lane )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lowton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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