Warrington Circulating Library

{{Short description|Subscription library established in 1760}}

{{Distinguish|Warrington Perambulating Library}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}

The Warrington Circulating Library of Warrington, England, was a subscription library established in 1760.{{cite journal |title=The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History |author= Paul Kaufman |journal= Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |volume= 57 |year=1967 |jstor=1006043 |quote=Check List of Subscription Libraries in England }}{{refn|group=nb|Historian Edward Baines referred to it as the "General Subscription Library at Warrington."{{cite book |title=History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster |author=Edward Baines |publisher=Wm. Wales & Co. |location=Liverpool |year= 1825 |volume=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pIAfAQAAMAAJ }}}} It became part of the Warrington Museum in 1848.{{cite book |title=Catalogue of the Leeds Library |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjc7AQAAIAAJ |year=1889 }}{{citation |title=Proposals for the establishment of a 'Warrington Museum and Library' under the 8th and 9th Vic. c. 43 by merging therewith the Warrington Town Library and the Museum of the Natural History Society |year=1848 }} Supporters included Joseph Priestley.{{cite journal |title=Dr. Priestly and his Relation to Proprietary Libraries |journal=Monthly Notes of the Library Association of the United Kingdom |number=3 |date=March 15, 1880 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=cikGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA17 }}