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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

CountyWarrington
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtWA3
Post TownWarrington

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