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Galgate, Lancashire

Historical Description

Galgate, a village in Ellel township, Lancashire, 4 miles S of Lancaster. It has a railway station, a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lancaster, two silk spinning mills, and a Wesleyan chapel.

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 parishCockerham 
HundredLonsdale south of the Sands 
Poor Law unionLancaster 

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 Galgate from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Galgate 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:

DistrictLancaster
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtLA2
Post TownLancaster

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