Irlam, Lancashire
Historical Description
Irlam, an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire, comprising the townships of Irlam and Barton Moss. It lies at the confluence of the rivers Irwell and Mersey, 5 miles SW of Leigh, with a station, of the name of Irlam and Cadishead, on the Cheshire Lines Committee's railway, and a post and money order office under Manchester; telegraph office, Cadis-head. It was constituted in 1867, and includes the hamlet of Cadishead. Population, 4862. Both at Irlam and Cadis-head are viaducts for carrying the railways across the Manchester Ship Canal, and at the former place is the second series of locks from Manchester. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £168. The church was built in 1865. There are also Roman Catholic and Methodist chapels, and a school with an endowment of £150 a year.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Irlam 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: