South Shore, Lancashire
Historical Description
Shore, South, a village and an ecclesiastical parish, forming part of the borough of Blackpool, Lancashire. The village stands on the coast, consists of ranges of villas and terraces fronting the sea, and has a railway station, a post, money order, and telegraph office under Blackpool, and a good bathing beach. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1871. Population, 6369. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £260 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1895 in the Late Decorated style. There are Wesleyan, Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Roman Catholic chapels. See BLACKPOOL.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Hundred | Amounderness | |
Poor Law union | the Fylde |
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 South Shore from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (South-Shore)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of South Shore 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: