Glazebury, Lancashire
Historical Description
Glazebury, an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire, formed in 1878. It is situated 11 miles from Warrington, and 10½ from Manchester, on the Glazebrook, a small tributary of the Mersey. It has a station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post office under Manchester; money order and telegraph office, Newchurch. Population, 1144. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £500 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Derby. There are also Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Glazebury 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: