Yealand Conyers, Lancashire
Historical Description
Yealand Conyers, a township and an ecclesiastical parish. in Warton parish, Lancashire. The township lies 9 miles from Lancaster, and 2½ N by E of Carnforth Junction on the L. & N.W.R., with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Carnforth. Acreage, 1582; population, 304. There is a parish council of five members and a chairman. The ecclesiastical parish includes Yealand Redmayne. Population, 526. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £294 with residence. Patrons, Hyndman's Trustees. The church is in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, N aisle, and low western tower. There are a Roman Catholic chapel, a Friends' meetinghouse, and endowed schools.
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 | Warton | |
| Hundred | Lonsdale south of the Sands | |
| Poor Law union | Lancaster |
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 Yealand Conyers from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Yealand-Conyers)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Yealand Conyers 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: