Dalton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Dalton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire, near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and 1 mile from Appley Bridge station on the L. & Y.R. Post town, Southport; money order and telegraph office, Parbold. Acreage, 2104; population, 456. Dalton Grange is the seat of the Prescott family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £209.
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 | Wigan | |
Hundred | West Derby | |
Poor Law union | Wigan |
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 Dalton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Dalton 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: