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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Hundred | Amounderness | |
Poor Law union | Preston |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Whitechapel)
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:
- 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: