Patricroft, Lancashire
Historical Description
Patricroft, an ecclesiastical parish in the borough of Eccles, Lancashire. It adjoins the Liverpool and Manchester branch of the L. & N.W.R., is 4½ miles W of Manchester, and has a railway station, cotton mills, a quilting factory, machine works, an iron foundry, and many private residences. The parish was constituted in 1868. Population, 12,902. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £290. Patron, the Bishop. The church was built in 1868 at a cost of over £4000, is a building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north and south porches, and a small bell-turret. There are also Baptist, Congregational, Wesleyan, and Free Methodist chapels, a hospital and dispensary for Eccles and Patricroft, built in 1877 and extended in 1883, an infants' nursery, public baths, and a county police station. A new workhouse was erected in 1894 at a cost of £20,000, and affords accommodation for 500 inmates. The old workhouse is transformed into a temporary hospital. See ECCLES.
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 | Eccles | |
Hundred | Salford |
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 Patricroft from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Patricroft)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Patricroft 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: