Grimsargh, Lancashire
Historical Description
Grimsargh, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire. The township is conjoint with Brockholes, lies on the Preston and Longridge railway, near the river Ribble, 4 miles NE of Preston. It has a station on the railway and a post office under Preston; money order and telegraph office, Whittingham. Acreage, 1937; population, 455, of whom 23 are in the county borough of Preston. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1875, and is more extensive than the township. Population, 461. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £110 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Preston. The church was restored and enlarged in 1868, consists of nave, chancel, and aisle, with a porch, and has a brass of the Cross family.
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 | Preston | |
Hundred | Amounderness | |
Poor Law union | Preston |
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 Grimsargh from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Grimsargh)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Grimsargh 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: