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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishUrswick 
HundredLonsdale north of the Sands 
Poor Law unionUlverston 

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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

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

DistrictSouth Lakeland
CountyCumbria
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtLA12
Post TownUlverston

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