History of Wigan   (Help with ancient and recent history.)

Kennee, before the amalgamation of Windle, Sutton, Parr, and Eccleston, for administrative purposes, St.Helens was the parish area surrounding a church of that name, in Windle.
You are clearly referring to the following passage, which only mentions 'the district' (Windle) as being mentioned in Roger Lowe's diary .....

"The chapel at St. Helens, and the schools there and at Rainford are noticed.
There are also some particulars as to the district in Roger Lowe's diary, published in Local Gleanings Lancs. and Ches. i; e.g. on 15 May, 1664, he and his friends went, 'two and two together,' to Cowley Hill to hear the Nonconformist minister preach".

St.Helens, the district that was created in the mid-1800's, was given the name of the church as mentioned there, and HERE!