Rampside, Lancashire

Historical Description

Rampside, a chapelry and suburban district within the boundaries of the county borough of Barrow-in-Furness Lancashire, on the coast near the ancient harbour of Piel, to which there is a branch of the Furness railway with a station for Rampside. There is a post office under Barrow-in-Furness; money order office, Barrow; telegraph office, Piel. Population of district, 10,416. The chapelry was constituted in 1887. Population, 366. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £165 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Dalton. The church is old, and consists of nave and western tower. A chancel was added in 1892, and the burying-ground was enlarged in 1889-90. There is an excellent parish room.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Rampside from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ramsyde, or Rampside)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Rampside 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:

• Blackburn Standard
• Burnley Express
• Lancashire Evening Post
• Lancaster Gazette
• Burnley Gazette
• Preston Chronicle
• Burnley Advertiser
• Burnley News