Wray with Botton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Wray-with-Botton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish, in Lancashire. The village stands 1 mile ESE of Hornby station on the M.R., and 10 miles NE of Lancaster, and has a post and money order office under Lancaster; telegraph office, Hornby. A cattle fair is held on Shrove Tuesday. The township includes Botton hamlet, and comprises 6526 acres; population, 491. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1842, and is in Melling parish. Population, 550. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £170 with residence. The church, built in 1840, and enlarged in 1880, is in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, and western turret. There are Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels, a Friends' meeting-house, and an endowed school.
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 | Melling | |
Hundred | Lonsdale south of the Sands |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
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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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