Gathurst, Lancashire
Historical Description
Gathurst, a small village in Shevington parish, Lancashire, with a station on the Wigan and Southport section of the L. & Y.R., about 1 mile from Shevington. The Roburite Explosives Company, Limited, has extensive works here— Gatley. See STOCKPORT ETCHELLS. Gatten-with-Stitt, a township in Ratlinghope parish,, Salop, 5½ miles NW of Church Stretton.
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 Gathurst 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: