Claughton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Claughton, a village, a township, and a parish in Lancashire, on the river Lune, and on the Skipton and Lancaster railway, 1½ mile WSW of Hornby railway station, and 7 miles NE by E of Lancaster. Post town, Lancaster; money order and telegraph office, Hornby. Acreage, 1581; population, 82. Claughton Hall, built as a manor-house in the time of James L, has two embattled towers and numerous transom ed windows. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; net value, —£83 with residence. The church is good.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Claughton St. Chad | |
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.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Claughton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Claughton (St. Chad))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Claughton 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: