Woodplumpton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Wood Plumpton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in St Michael-on-Wyre parish, Lancashire. The village stands near the Lancaster and Preston Canal, 2 miles SW of Barton and Broughton station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4½ NW by N of Preston. It has a post office under Preston; money order and telegraph office, Broughton. The ecclesiastical parish also contains the hamlets of Catforth, Eaves, and Higher and Lower Bartle. Acreage of township, 4982; population, 1184; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1006. The manor belongs to the Birley family. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £160 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of St Michael-on-Wyre. The church is ancient, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and turret, and was restored in 1854. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Roman Catholic chapels in the parish, and an endowed school with £23 a year.
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
The Registers of Woodplumpton 1604-1659, are available to browse online.
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 Woodplumpton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Plumpton, Wood)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Woodplumpton 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: