[2] Kenyon was a township within the historic borders of Lancashire in Winwick ecclesiastical parish and part of Lowton until the reign of Henry III.

It became part of Leigh Poor Law Union.

Golborne Urban District was dissolved in 1974 and its area divided, the Culcheth and Newchurch wards (south of the old Kenyon Junction station and Kenyon Hall) became part of Warrington District in Cheshire, the rest became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester.

To the west of the village the Liverpool and Manchester Railway had a junction with the Bolton and Leigh Railway where Kenyon Junction station was built.

[5] The Great Central Railway's Manchester to Wigan line crossed the township.