Prestolee, Lancashire
Historical Description
Prestolee, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Prestwich parish, Lancashire, near Prestwich town. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1883, and its post town is Prestwich, under Manchester. Population, 899. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £440. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church was built in 1862, is in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, transepts, and tower with spire; it was endowed by Mrs T. B. Crompton, and has a large memorial window to her, erected in 1866.
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 | Prestwich | |
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 Prestolee from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Prestolee)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Prestolee 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: