Farington, Lancashire
Historical Description
Farington, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire. The township lies on the river Lostock, and on the Preston and Wigan railway, 2½ miles S of Preston, and has a station with telegraph office on the L. & Y. and L. & N.W. Joint railways, and a post and money order office under Preston. Acreage, 1860; population of the township, 2154; of the ecclesiastical parish, 2636. Faring-ton House and Wellfield House are chief residences. Part of the land, formerly maishy, has been reclaimed, and is now under cultivation. Many of the inhabitants are employed in cotton mills. The ecclesiastical parish is more extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1842. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester — gross value, £150 with residence. The church is modern— A stained glass window was erected in 1889, and the interior restored and re-decorated in 1891. There is an. endowed free school.
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 | Penwortham | |
Hundred | Leyland | |
Poor Law union | Preston |
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 Farington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Farington)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Farington 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: