Angerton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Angerton, a parish in Lancashire, about 1 mile from Foxfield station on the Furness railway. The greater part of the land is moor and waste, the remainder arable and pasture. Moss Houses, Waltham Hill, Marsh Field, and Angerton Hall are places in the parish. Kirkby-in-Furness is the post town and money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2195; population, 28.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Angerton 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: