Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Thornton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.
Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew
Thornton, township, Sefton par., SW. Lancashire, 6½ miles N. of Liverpool, 774 ac., pop. 275.
A village in [West] Derby hundred, in the county of Cheshire.