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.
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 | Lancaster | |
Hundred | Lonsdale 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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Littledale)
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:
- 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: