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Shireshead or Shirehead, Lancashire

Historical Description

Shireshead or Shirehead, an ecclesiastical parish in Garstang and Cockerham parishes, Lancashire, on the river Wyre, with a station (Bay Horse) on the L. & N.W.R., and 4 miles N by E of Garstang. Post town, Garstang; money order and telegraph office, Scorton. Population, 410. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Cockerham. The church is modern. The Ormrod family are lords of the manor.

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.


Newspapers and Periodicals

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