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.
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:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: