Inskip, Lancashire
Historical Description
Inskip, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire. The township bears the name of Inskip-with-Sowerby, lies 4 miles from Salwick station on the L. & N.W. and L. & Y. Joint line, the Barton and Broughton station on the L. & N.W.B., and 9 NW of Preston, and has a post office under Preston; money order office, St Michaels; telegraph office, Great Eccleston. Acreage, 2979; population, 504. The manor belongs to the Earl of Derby. The ecclesiastical parish is larger than the township, and was constituted in 1848. Population, 640. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £214 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of St Michael-on-Wyre. The church is a stone edifice of nave and chancel, with a belfry. There are a Baptist chapel and some small charities.
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 Inskip from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Inskip, with Sowerby)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Inskip 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: