Walton le Dale, Lancashire
Historical Description
Walton-le-Dale, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Blackburn parish, Lancashire. The village stands on the river Ribble, 2 miles SE of Preston railway station, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Preston. The township is governed by a district council, includes Bamber Bridge and Higher Walton villages and two hamlets, and comprises 4683 acres; population, 10,556. Walton House, Cooper Hill, Lostock Hall, and Highwood are chief residences. Cotton spinning and market gardening are the chief industries. The ecclesiastical parish does not include Bamber Bridge and Higher Walton, which form separate ecclesiastical parishes. Population, 2984. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. The church was rebuilt about 1350, and partially restored in 1794, 1816, and 1864. It is in the Perpendicular and Early English styles, and consists of chancel, nave, transepts, and a western tower. There are Roman Catholic and Wesleyan chapels and a working-men's institute.
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 | Blackburn | |
Hundred | Blackburn | |
Poor Law union | Preston |
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 Walton le Dale from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Walton-Le-Dale)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Walton le Dale 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: