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Wilpshire, Lancashire

Historical Description

Wilpshire, a village and a township in Blackburn parish, Lancashire, 3½ miles N by E of Blackburn, with a station on a section of the L. & Y.R.,and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Blackburn. Acreage, 1002; population, 413. There is a parish council consisting of six members. There are a Wesleyan chapel erected in 1887, and a large orphanage belonging to Blackburn with about sixty orphans.

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 
Civil parishBlackburn 
HundredBlackburn 
Poor Law unionBlackburn 

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 Wilpshire from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Wilpshire 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:

DistrictRibble Valley
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBB1
Post TownBlackburn

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