Adlington, Lancashire
Historical Description
Adlington, a township, a village, and a parish in Lancashire, with stations on the L. & Y.R. and L. & N.W.R., and near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 3 miles SE of Chorley, and with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chorley. Cotton manufacture is carried on, also calico printing and bleaching. Acreage of the township, 1064; population of the whole parish, 5975; of the township of Adlington alone, 4190. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The present parish church was built in 1883, and will seat 700 persons. The old church, erected in 1839, is used as a chapel of ease. There are Wesleyan, Congregational, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and two schools. The parish also comprises the townships of Anderton, Duxbury, and Heath Charnock.
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 | Standish | |
Hundred | Leyland | |
Poor Law union | Chorley |
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.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Adlington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Adlington)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Adlington are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: