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Elston, Lancashire

Historical Description

Elston, a township in the ecclesiastical parish of Grimsargh, Lancashire, on the river Ribble, 5 miles ENE of Preston. Acreage, 962; population, 61. There are charities producing £85 per annum.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishStandish 
HundredAmounderness 
Poor Law unionPreston 

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 Elston from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Elston are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictPreston
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBB2
Post TownBlackburn

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