Rusland, Lancashire
Historical Description
Rusland, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish in Colton parish, Lancashire, on Rusland Pool, a feeder of the Leven, 5½ miles S by W of Hawkshead, and 8 NNE of Ulverston. Post town, Ulverston; money order and telegraph office, Haverthwaite. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1844. Population, 130. Rusland Hall is the seat of the Archibald family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £150 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Colton. The church, with the exception of the tower, was entirely rebuilt in 1868, consists of chancel, nave, and an embattled western tower, and contains some memorial windows. There are a Friends' meeting-house, supposed to have been founded by George Fox, and a parish room with reading-room attached, erected in 1890.
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 | Coulton | |
Hundred | Lonsdale north of the Sands | |
Poor Law union | Ulverston |
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 Rusland from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Rusland 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: