Greenhalgh with Thirleton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Greenhalgh-with-Thirleton, a township in Kirkham civil and Weston ecclesiastical parish, Lancashire, 2 miles NW of Kirkham station on the Preston and Wyre Joint railway. Post town, Preston; money order and telegraph office, Great Eccleston. It includes Esprick hamlet, and has ruins of a castle, said to have been built by the first Earl of Derby, and seeming to have comprised seven or eight towers of much height and strength. Acreage, 1897; population, 374. There is a Congregational chapel
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 | Kirkham | |
Hundred | Amounderness | |
Poor Law union | the Fylde |
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 Greenhalgh with Thirleton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Greenalgh, with Thistleton)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: