Wingates, Lancashire
Historical Description
Wingates, an ecclesiastical parish in Deane and Bolton-le-Moors parish, Lancashire, 2 miles WSW of Bolton railway station. It was constituted in 1860, comprises the township of Lostock, and has a post and money order office under Bolton; telegraph office, Westhoughton. Population, 4234. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Deane. The church is a plain building, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and bell-turret, and contains some memorial windows.
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 Wingates 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: