Hollinfare, Lancashire
Historical Description
Hollinfare, a parish formed out of Warrington parish, Lancashire, comprising Rixton-cum-Glazebrook township, on the river Mersey, 1 mile from Glazebrook station on the Cheshire Lines Committee railway, and 6 miles ENE of Warrington. There is a post office at Hollins Green, under Warrington; money order and telegraph office, Cadishead. Population, 1195. Lord Winmarleigh is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £186 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Warrington. The church, dedicated to St Helen, was rebuilt in 1735 and restored in 1882, and has chancel, nave, aisle, and porch. There are also Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Roman Catholic chapels.
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 Hollinfare 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: