Grindleton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Grindleton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Mitton parish, W.R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the river Ribble and the boundary with Lancashire, 1½ mile N of Chatburn railway station, and 3 miles NNE of Clitheroe. It has a post office under Clitheroe; money order and telegraph office, Chatbum. The township includes the village, and comprises 3777 acres; population, 579. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1845, and is more extensive than the township. Population, 736. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; gross value, —£120 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Mitton. The church is a plain modern building, and has a low square tower. There are almshouses for eight widows.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Grindleton 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: