Roby, Lancashire
Historical Description
Roby, an ecclesiastical parish, forming part of Huyton-with-Roby township, Lancashire, with a station on the L. & N.W.R., 6 miles E of Liverpool, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Liverpool. The township of Huyton-with-Roby has, under the Local Government Act, an urban district council. It is divided into four wards and has twelve members. Roby Hall is the seat of the Edwards-Moss family, and occupies the site of an ancient mansion. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1853. Population, 1105. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £360 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Derby.
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 | Huyton | |
Hundred | West Derby | |
Poor Law union | Prescot |
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 Roby from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Roby 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: