Great Sankey, Lancashire
Historical Description
Sankey, Great, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Prescot parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the Sankey Canal, 2¼ miles W of Warrington, and has a station called Sankey on the Cheshire Lines Committee railway and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Warrington and a station on a section of the L. & N.W.R., both of the name of Sankey Bridge. Acreage, including Great Sankey Green, 1909 of land and 14 of water; population, 580. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Powys family. Railway viaducts here cross the Sankey Canal. The ecclesiastical parish was originally contenninate with the township, but now includes also the township of Penketh. Population, 2253. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £170 with residence. Patron, Lord Lilford. The church is an old brick building in the Early English style.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Prescot | |
Hundred | West Derby | |
Poor Law union | Warrington |
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 Great Sankey from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sankey, Great)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Great Sankey 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: