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Whitechapel, Lancashire

Historical Description

Whitechapel, an ecclesiastical parish in Kirkham parish, Lancashire, 5 miles SSE of Garstang railway station. It was constituted in 1846. Post town, Preston; money order office, Claughton; telegraph office, Longridge. Population, 500. For parish council purposes Whitechapel and Goosnargh are conjoined, with a council of eight members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £210 with residence. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church is a small plain building, and was restored in 1889. There is a school endowed with £40 per annum.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
HundredAmounderness 
Poor Law unionPreston 

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 Whitechapel from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Whitechapel are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

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

DistrictPreston
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtPR3
Post TownPreston

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