Ravenhead, Lancashire
Historical Description
Ravenhead, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish in Prescot parish, Lancashire, on the Sankey Canal, 1 mile SW of St Helens. Post town and money order and telegraph office, St Helens. There are collieries and extensive glassworks. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1870. Population, 7441. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £198. Patron, the Vicar of St Helens. The church was built in 1869, is in the Gothic style, and consists of chancel, nave, N porch, and a bell-turret. Ravenhill. See FYLINGDALES.
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 Ravenhead 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: