Anderton, a small agricultural township in Adlington parish, Lancashire, under Rivington Tike, near the Bolton railway and the Manchester and Leeds Canal, 4 miles SE of Chorley. Acreage, 1229; population, 454. Part of the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks are in this township, and extend for about 7 miles along the base of the Bolton Hills, forming a chain of lakes of some beauty. There is a Roman Catholic church (enlarged in 1890) and school, and charities amounting to about £170 yearly.
