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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
HundredAmounderness 
Poor Law unionGarstang 

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:


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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictWyre
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtPR4
Post TownPreston

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