Bardsea, Lancashire
Historical Description
Bardsea, a village and an ecclesiastical parish formed from Urswick parish, Lancashire, on Morecambe Bay, 3 miles S by E of Ulverstone, and 1½ mile from Priory station on the Furness railway. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ulverstone. Population of the parish, 251. An hospital of the Knights of St John once stood here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £140. The church is modern Gothic. There is an endowed school. Bardsea Hall, a handsome residence with a fine park, is the seat of the Gale family.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Urswick | |
Hundred | Lonsdale north of the Sands | |
Poor Law union | Ulverston |
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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bardsea from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bardsea 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: