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.
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 | Preston | |
Hundred | Amounderness | |
Poor Law union | Preston |
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:
- 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: