Mawdesley, Lancashire
Historical Description
Mawdesley, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Croston parish, Lancashire. The township lies on a branch of the river Douglas, 1½ mile E by S of Enfford station on the L. & Y. R., and 7 miles WSW of Chorley. It has a post office under Ormskirk; money order and telegraph office, Eufford. Acreage, 2959; population, 956. The parish council, under the Local Government Act, 1894, consists of six members. The manor belongs to the Hesketh and De Trafford families. Mawdesley Hall is an ancient mansion on a sandstone rock, was formerly the seat of the Mawdesley family, and is now a farmhouse. The ecclesiastical parish consists of the townships of Mawdesley and Bispham, and was constituted in 1843. Population, 1215. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Eector of Croston. The church was built in 1840, is in the Early English style, and consists of chancel and nave, with tower and small spire. There are Wesleyan and Roman Catholic chapels. The Roman Catholic chapel was built in 1830, is a handsome edifice, and has attached to it a large burying-ground.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Croston | |
Hundred | Leyland | |
Poor Law union | Chorley |
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 Mawdesley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Mawdesley)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Mawdesley 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: