Urmston, Lancashire
Historical Description
Urmston, a township and a parish in Lancashire, 5¼ miles WSW of Manchester, with a station on the Cheshire Lines Committee railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester. Acreage of township, 993; population, 4042. There is an urban district council consisting of twelve members. The Grange, the Grove, Urmston Lodge, and Manor Croft are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £350 with residence. Patron, the Bishop. The church was built in 1868, is in the Decorated style, and consists of chancel, nave,. N and S aisles, and a bell-turret. There are Wesleyan, Congregational, Primitive, and Independent Methodist chapels,. also numerous private residences, a bank, a science and art institute, and a Jewish cemetery.
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 | Flixton | |
Hundred | Salford |
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.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Urmston from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Urmston 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: