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.
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 | Ormskirk | |
Hundred | West Derby | |
Poor Law union | Ormskirk |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Scarisbrick)
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:
- 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: