Withnell, Lancashire
Historical Description
Withnell, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Leyland parish, Lancashire, The township lies 6 miles SW of Blackburn and 8 from Preston, includes Brinscall and Abbey Mill villages, and the hamlets of Roddlesworth and Ollerton, and has a station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post office under Chorley; money order and telegraph office, Brinscall. Acreage, 3628; population, 2779. The manor with Ollerton Hall belongs to the Park family. A reservoir of the Liverpool waterworks is in this township. There are cotton mills, calico-printing works, bleaching mills, paper mills, and quarries. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1842. Population, 2831. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £166 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Leyland. The church consists of nave and western tower. There are Wesleyan, Free Methodist, and Roman Catholic chapels, and there is a chapel of ease at Brinscall.
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 | Leyland | |
Hundred | Leyland | |
Poor Law union | Chorley |
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 Withnell from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Withnell 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: