Editing Netherton, Merseyside (section)

==Architecture==
The oldest houses are to be found at the heart of the old hamlet of Netherton, clustered around the green in what is now known as Netherton Village, just north of the [[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]]. The old catholic [[St Benet's Chapel, Netherton|church of St. Benet]] nearby was built in 1793.<ref>[[Nikolaus Pevsner|Pevsner]], Nikolaus - The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, 1969.</ref> Unusually it appears as an ordinary house from the road with the church backing onto what was once open fields. A modern church was built over the road in the 1970s.

Nowadays, Netherton is formed with many modern housing, the most recent being the [[George Wimpey]] estate, completed in 2000, built just {{convert|100|yd|m|-2}} from Netherton Village green.  Housing in this part of Netherton is considered rather desirable, unlike the council-owned housing closer to the town's shopping amenities.