Charnock Richard and Welch Whittle, Lancashire
Historical Description
Charnock Richard and Welch Whittle are townships which were formed in 1861 into an ecclesiastical parish from that of Standish, Lancashire. It is adjacent to the Wigan and Preston railway, near Coppull station, 3 miles SW by Wof Chorley, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Euxton and Birkacre. Acreage of township of Char-nock Eichard, 1946; population, 645; of the ecclesiastical parish, 758. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; value, £300 with residence. The church was built in 1861, is in the Decorated style, and consists of nave and chancel, with embattled western tower, and has several stained glass windows.
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 | Standish | |
Hundred | Leyland | |
Poor Law union | Chorley |
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 Charnock Richard and Welch Whittle from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Charnock-Richard)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Charnock Richard and Welch Whittle 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: