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Halsall, Lancashire

Historical Description

Halsall, a village, a township, and a parish in Lancashire. The village stands near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, is a scattered place, and has a station, called Barton and Halsall, on the Cheshire Lines Committee's railway, and a post and telegraph office under Ormskirk; money order office, Orms-kirk. The township includes also the hamlets of Barton and Haskeyne. Acreage, 6995; population, 1264. The parish contains likewise the townships of Down Holland, Lydiate, Moiling, and Maghull. Acreage, 16, 679; population of the civil parish, 5451; of the ecclesiastical, 1568. A considerable area of marsh land has been reclaimed and laid out as farms. The manor belongs to the Castega family. Good building stone is found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £3500 with residence. The church is a fine example of the Decorated order, consists of nave, three aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire, contains a piscina, effigies of a priest and a knight, and several mural monuments, and was thoroughly restored in 1886. There is an endowed school for boys, founded in 1593, and other charities.

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 
Ecclesiastical parishHalsall St. Cuthbert 
HundredWest Derby 
Poor Law unionOrmskirk 

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 Halsall from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Halsall 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:

DistrictWest Lancashire
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtL39
Post TownOrmskirk

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