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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.

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 parishCroston 
HundredLeyland 
Poor Law unionChorley 

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:


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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictChorley
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtL40
Post TownOrmskirk

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