Melling (Halsall), Lancashire
Historical Description
Melling, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Halsall parish, Lancashire, on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, adjacent to the river Alt, 1 mile from Kirkby station on the L. & Y.R., and 7 miles NNE of Liverpool. There is a post office at Melling Mount; money order and telegraph office, Kirkby. Acreage of township, 2118; population, 915. The chief landowners are the Earl of Latham, the Earl of Derby, and C. W. Blundell, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Halsall. The church was rebuilt in 1834 and enlarged in 1873, is in the Pointed style, and contains several handsome tablets. There are a national school with a small, endowment and a Roman Catholic school.
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 | Halsall | |
Hundred | West Derby | |
Poor Law union | Ormskirk |
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 Melling (Halsall) from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Melling, cum Cunscough)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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