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Ravenhead, Lancashire

Historical Description

Ravenhead, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish in Prescot parish, Lancashire, on the Sankey Canal, 1 mile SW of St Helens. Post town and money order and telegraph office, St Helens. There are collieries and extensive glassworks. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1870. Population, 7441. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £198. Patron, the Vicar of St Helens. The church was built in 1869, is in the Gothic style, and consists of chancel, nave, N porch, and a bell-turret. Ravenhill. See FYLINGDALES.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Ravenhead 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:

DistrictSt. Helens
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtWA10
Post TownSt. Helens

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