Witton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Witton, a township, mostly within the county borough of Blackburn, and an ecclesiastical parish in Blackburn civil parish, Lancashire. The township lies half a mile N of Cherry Tree station on the L. & Y.R., and 1½ mile W by S of Blackburn, and contains large cotton mills. It has a post and money order office (T.S.O.) under Blackburn; telegraph office, Blackburn. Acreage, 700; population, 5210. By the Blackburn Corporation Act of 1892 the part of the township within the borough became an integral part of the civil parish of Blackburn. The manor, with Witton Hall, belongs to the Feilden family. Billinge Hill rises to an altitude of 807 feet, and commands a very extensive view. The ecclesiastical parish extends beyond the township, and was constituted in 1842. Population, 4707. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £354 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. The church was built in 1837, and is in the Norman style, and consists of chancel, nave, S transept and E tower with spire.
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 | Blackburn | |
Hundred | Blackburn | |
Poor Law union | Blackburn |
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 Witton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Witton 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: