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Bickerstaffe, Lancashire

Historical Description

Bickerstaffe, a township in Lancashire. It lies on the Ormskirk and St Helen's railway, 1 mile from Skelmersdale station, 3½ miles SE of Ormskirk, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Skelmersdale. Acreage, 6444; population, 2178. The township gives the title of Baron to the Earl of Derby. Many of the inhabitants are employed in an extensive colliery. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £300. Patron, the Earl of Derby. The church is good.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishOrmskirk 
HundredWest Derby 
Poor Law unionOrmskirk 

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 Bickerstaffe from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Bickerstaffe are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictWest Lancashire
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtL39
Post TownOrmskirk

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