Swarthmoor, Lancashire
Historical Description
Swarthmoor, a hamlet in Pennington parish, Lancashire, and an eminence 1 mile SSE of Ulverston. It was the place where, in 1487, the rebel forces of the impostor Lambert Simnel encamped. It has a post office under Ulverston; money order and telegraph office, Ulverston. Swarthmoor Hall was for several years the residence of George Fox, who established the Friends' meeting-house. There is also a church institute.
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 Swarthmoor 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: