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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

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 parishKirkham 
HundredAmounderness 
Poor Law unionthe 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:


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: