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Scarisbrick, Lancashire

Historical Description

Scarisbrick, a village and a township in Ormskirk parish, Lancashire. The village stands on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 3 miles NW of Ormskirk, and 2 from Bescar Lane station on the L. & Y.R. It has a post office under Ormskirk; money order office, Ormskirk; telegraph office, Bescar Lane (R.S.) The township contains also the hamlets of Bescar and Snape Green. Acreage, 8397 acres; population, 2237; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1734. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. The manor, with Scarisbrick Hall, belongs to the Marquis de Casteja. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £204. Patron, the Vicar of Ormskirk. The church is in the Later English style. There is a Roman Catholic chapel erected in 1888-89.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishOrmskirk 
HundredWest Derby 
Poor Law unionOrmskirk 

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 Scarisbrick from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Scarisbrick are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictWest Lancashire
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtL40
Post TownOrmskirk

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