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.
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: