Brinscall, Lancashire

Historical Description

Brinscall, a village in Withnell township and ecclesiastical parish, Lancashire. It is about 5 miles from Blackburn, and 206 from London, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chorley and a station on the L. & N.W.R. There are Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels.

Church Records

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Brinscall 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