Woolston with Martinscroft, Lancashire
Historical Description
Woolston-with-Martinscroft, a joint township in Warrington parish, Lancashire, 3½ miles E by N of Warrington town and railway station. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Warrington. Acreage, 1621; population, 498. There are Wesleyan and Roman Catholic chapels.
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 | Warrington | |
Hundred | West Derby | |
Poor Law union | Warrington |
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 Woolston with Martinscroft from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Woolstone)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: