Caton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Caton, a township and a chapelry in the parish of Lancaster, Lancashire. The township lies on the river Lune and the M.R., 4½ miles NE of Lancaster, includes Littledale hamlet, and has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lancaster. Acreage, 8396; population, 1248. A rising ground commands a noble view, much praised by the poet Gray, of the valley of the Lune, backed by Ingleborough Mountain. There are a cotton mill, some bobbin mills, and a brick and tile manufactory. Various Roman relics have been found. The chapelry comprises all the township. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; value, £229 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Lancaster. The church was rebuilt in 1864. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Baptist chapels. The Victoria Institute, erected in 1888, comprises reading and recreation rooms and a concert hall. The Manchester Waterworks pass through this township.
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 | Lancaster | |
Hundred | Lonsdale south of the Sands |
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 Caton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Caton 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: