Pennington, Lancashire

Historical Description

Pennington, a parish in Lancashire, 1½ mile WSW of Ulverston, and 1 from Lindal station on the Furness railway. It has a post office under Ulverston; money order office, Lindal; telegraph office, Ulverston. Acreage, 2845; population, 1650. The manor belongs to Lord Muncaster. Iron ore is very largely mined. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £290 with residence. Patron, the Bishop. It is believed there was a church here in 1100, and a pre-Reformation church followed this, which was rebuilt in 1826, and consists of nave and embattled western tower.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Registers of St. Michael's, Pennington in Furness 1612-1702, are available to browse online.

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Pennington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pennington (St. Michael))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Pennington 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:

• Blackburn Standard
• Burnley Express
• Lancashire Evening Post
• Lancaster Gazette
• Burnley Gazette
• Preston Chronicle
• Burnley Advertiser
• Burnley News