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Warton with Lindeth, Lancashire

Historical Description

Warton-with-Lindeth, a township and a parish in Lancashire. The township lies near Morecambe Bay, the Kendal Canal, and Carnforth railway station, 6½ miles N by E of Lancaster, and includes Lindeth hamlet. It has a post and money office under Carnforth; telegraph office, Carnforth. Acreage of township, 2816 of land and 1959 of water and foreshore; population, 1384; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1765. There is a parish council of seven members and a chairman. The ancient parish of Warton consisted of seven townships, within which are now four ecclesiastical parishes- Warton, Yealand, Conyers, Silverdale, and the district chapelry of Christ Church of Carnforth. Mines of iron ore used in the manufacture of paint are worked. Berwick Hall, Hyning Hall, Hazel Mount, Linden Hall, Warton Grange, Warton Hall, and Buckstone House are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £300 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The church is an ancient building in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, S porch, and an embattled western tower. It contains a fine Saxon or Early Norman font, sedilia, and several stained memorial windows, and was externally restored in 1889, and internally in 1892. Carnforth, Silverdale, Yealand Conyers, with Yealand Redmayne constitute separate ecclesiastical parishes. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, a school and almshouses founded in 1594 with a total endowment of £77 per annum. The school was reopened in 1877 under a scheme of the Endowed School Commissioners as an elementary school.

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 
Ecclesiastical parishWarton Holy Trinity 
HundredLonsdale south of the Sands 
Poor Law unionLancaster 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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Land and Property

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


Newspapers and Periodicals

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