Hambleton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Hambleton, a township-chapelry in Kirkham parish, Lancashire, on the river Wyre, 3 miles NE of Poulton railway station, and 7½ WSW of Garstang. It has a post office under Preston; money order and telegraph office, Poulton-le-Fyld. Acreage, 1553, of which 130 are water; population, 367. A fine bridge over the Wyre was erected in 1864, at a cost of £13, 000. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £175. Patron, the Vicar of Kirk-ham. The church was rebuilt in 1749 and restored in 1877.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Hundred | Amounderness | |
Poor Law union | Garstang |
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 Hambleton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hambleton)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hambleton 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: