Ince Blundell, Lancashire

Historical Description

Ince Blundell, a village and a township in Sefton parish, Lancashire. The township stands near the river Alt and the Liverpool and Southport railway, 9 miles NNW of Liverpool, and has a very ancient cross and a Roman Catholic chapel. Post town, Liverpool; money order and telegraph office, Great Crosby. The township comprises 231& acres; population, 471. Ince Blundell Hall, the seat of the Blundell family, is a splendid mansion in a beautiful park, and has attached to it a building modelled exactly after the Pantheon at Rome, but one-third less in size, and containing: a rich collection of statuary, paintings, sarcophagi, vases,. bronzes, and other objects of interest.

Administration

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

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 Ince Blundell from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ince-Blundell)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Ince Blundell 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:

• Blackburn Standard
• Burnley Express
• Lancashire Evening Post
• Lancaster Gazette
• Burnley Gazette
• Preston Chronicle
• Burnley Advertiser
• Burnley News