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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
HundredAmounderness 
Poor Law unionPreston 

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:


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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictPreston
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtPR4
Post TownPreston

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