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Lower Holker, Lancashire

Historical Description

Holker, Lower, a village and a township in Cartmel parish, Lancashire. The village stands 2 miles SW of Cartmel town, and half a mile from Cark-in-Cartmel station on the Furness railway, and contains several residences. There is-a post, money order, and telegraph office at Cark. The township includes the village of Flookburgh. Acreage, 2387, and 2500 of foreshore; population, 1190. The manor belongs½ to Victor C. W. Cavendish, Esq., M.P. Holker Hall, a spacious edifice, has undergone much improvement, contains-a fine collection of paintings, and stands in a well-wooded park, extending to the shore of Morecambe Bay.

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 parishCartmel 
HundredLonsdale north of the Sands 
Poor Law unionUlverston 

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 Lower Holker from the following:


Land and Property

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


Newspapers and Periodicals

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