Davyhulme, Lancashire
Historical Description
Davyhulme, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire, adjacent to the Mancheter Ship Canal, 6½ miles WSW of Manchester, with a post office under Manchester; money order and telegraph office, Urmston. Population, 1326. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £194. A mission room in connection with the parish church was licensed by the Bishop of Mancliester in 1881. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.
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 Davyhulme 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: