Newton with Scales, Lancashire
Historical Description
Newton, a township, conjoint, with Scales, in Kirkham parish, Lancashire, on the river Ribble, and adjacent to the Preston and Wyre railway, 1½ mile ESE of Kirkham. Post town, Kirkham. Acreage, 1244, and 279 of water; population, 231. A Blue-coat school, for maintaining, clothing, and educating poor native boys and girls, was founded hera in 1707 by John Hornbie, was rebuilt in 1864, and has an endowed income of about £600, administered by trustees. It is now conducted as a higher grade public elementary school to the district.
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 | Kirkham | |
Hundred | Amounderness | |
Poor Law union | the Fylde |
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 Newton with Scales from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Newton, with Scales)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Newton with Scales 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: