Torver, Lancashire
Historical Description
Torver, a small village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Ulverston parish, Lancashire, with a station on the Coniston railway, 2 miles SW of Coniston. There is a post office under Coniston; money order and telegraph office, Coniston (R.S.O.) Acreage, 3550 of land and 266 of water; population of the township, 176; of the ecclesiastical parish, 192. The manor belongs to the Crown. The scenery is highly picturesque. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £120 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1884, is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, and a central tower. There are a Baptist chapel and an endowed school with £13 a year.
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 | Ulverstone | |
Hundred | Lonsdale north of the Sands | |
Poor Law union | Ulverston |
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 Torver from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Torver 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: