APPLETON is a village, with a station on the Rainford junction and Widnes section of the London and North Western railway, ½ mile from Widnes, in Widnes borough civil parish, and Farnworth ecclesiastical parish, in the union and petty sessional division of Presoot and county court district of St. Helens, The Catholic church, dedicated to St. Bede, and built in 1847, is an edifice in the Early English style, consisting of nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing one bell: there are five stained windows, and sittings for 500 persons. A new presbytery was added, and the sacristy was enlarged in 1893, at a cost of £2,000, The Baptist chapel was built in 1890, at a cost of £1,200, and will seat 300. The Wesleyan chapel, an iron structure, seats 500; the old chapel is now used as a Sunday school. Tool making is Carried on.