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Higher Walton, Lancashire

Historical Description

Walton, Higher, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Walton-le-Dale township, Lancashire, 2¾ miles E by N of Preston railway station, with a post and money order office under Preston; telegraph office, Walton-le-Dale. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1862. Population, 2618. There are cotton factories and calico print-works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £300. Patron, alternately the Bishop of Manchester and the Vicar of Blackburn. The church was built in 1861-62, and is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, transept, S aisle, and a tower with spire. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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 Higher Walton 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:

DistrictSouth Ribble
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtPR5
Post TownPreston

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