Mossley Hill, Lancashire
Historical Description
Mossley Hill, an ecclesiastical parish in the SW of Lancashire, with a station on the Warrington, Liverpool, and Manchester branch of the L. & N.W.R., 2 miles ESE of Liverpool. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Liverpool. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1875. Population, 1027. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £750.
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 Mossley Hill 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: