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Warton, Lancashire

Historical Description

Warton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Kirkham parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the river Ribble's estuary, 3 miles SW of Kirkham railway station, and about 3 from Lytham; contains a scattered village of its own name, and has a post office under Preston; money order office, Freckleton; telegraph office, Lytham. Acreage, 2540, of which 949 are water; population, 414. The manor belongs to the Clifton family. Warton Hall is the residence of Lord Grey de Ruthyn. The ecclesiastical parish includes also Bryning-with-Kellamergh. Population, 516. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £272 with residence. Patron, Christchnrch, Oxford. The church, erected in 1885 on the site of a former one, is in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and N and S porches.

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 
HundredAmounderness 
Poor Law unionthe 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 Warton from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Warton 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:

DistrictLancaster
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtLA5
Post TownCarnforth

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