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Barton, Lancashire

Historical Description

Barton, a township, forming with the townships of Myers-cough and Billsborough and the hamlet of Newshani the parish of St Lawrence Barton, in the rural deanery of Preston, Lancashire. The remaining portion of Barton is included in the parish of Broughton. The township has a station on the N.W.R., 5½ miles N of Preston. The area of the parish is 2707 acres; population of the civil parish, 338; of the ecclesiastical, 885. Barton Hall and Barton Lodge are within the limits. Its post town is Preston; money order and telegraph office, Broughton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £220 with residence.

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 parishPreston 
HundredAmounderness 
Poor Law unionPreston 

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 Barton from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Barton 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:

DistrictPreston
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtPR3
Post TownPreston

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