Burrow with Burrow, Lancashire
Historical Description
Burrow-with-Burrow, a township in Tunstall parish, Lancashire, on the river Lune, 2 miles SE of Kirkby-Lons-dale, which is the post town and railway station. Acreage, 2426; population, 242. The Roman station Bremetonacum is thought to have been here; Roman pavements, altars, inscriptions, urns, and coins have been found, and a Roman milestone is on the road. Burrow Hall is the seat of the Fenwick 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 | Tunstall | |
Hundred | Lonsdale south of the Sands |
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 Burrow with Burrow from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Burrow with Burrow)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: