Myerscough, Lancashire
Historical Description
Myerscough, a township in Lancaster parish, Lancashire, on the river Wyre, 3 miles S of Garstang, and 3 from the Barton and Broughton station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Preston; money order and telegraph office, Broughton. Acreage, 2707; population, 395. The manor belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster. Myerscough Hall and Myerscough House are chief residences. Myfod. See MEIFOD.
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 | Lancaster | |
Hundred | Amounderness | |
Poor Law union | Garstang |
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 Myerscough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Myerscough)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Myerscough 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: