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Littledale, Lancashire

Historical Description

Littledale, a hamlet and a chapelry in Caton township, Lancaster parish, Lancashire, on an affluent of the river Lune, 2½ miles SSE of Caton station on the M.R., and 6 E of Lancaster. Post town, Lancaster; money order and telegraph office, Caton. Population of chapelry, 50. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Caton, in the diocese of Manchester; joint net value, £228 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Lancaster. The chapel was built in 1755, and is a small building with a turret.

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 
Civil parishLancaster 
HundredLonsdale south of the Sands 

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 Littledale from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Littledale 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:

CountyLancashire

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