Aughton, Lancashire

Historical Description

Aughton, a township and a parish in Lancashire. The parish lies on a branch of the river Alt, and on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, at Town-Green station, near the Liverpool and Leeds Canal, 2½ miles SSW of Ormskirk, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 4610; population, 3456. Sir R. T. Tempest, Bart., is lord of the manor and chief landowner. There are several handsome villa residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £500 with residence. The parish church, dedicated to St Michael, dates from the 13th century. There are also a handsome modern church, which is a chapel of ease, built in 1877, and Roman Catholic and Baptist chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Aughton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Aughton (St. Michael))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Aughton are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

• Blackburn Standard
• Burnley Express
• Lancashire Evening Post
• Lancaster Gazette
• Burnley Gazette
• Preston Chronicle
• Burnley Advertiser
• Burnley News