Scotforth, Lancashire
Historical Description
Scotforth, a village, a township, and a parish in Lancashire, 2 miles S of Lancaster station on the L. & N.W.R. There is a post office under Lancaster; money order and telegraph office, Lancaster. The township includes the hamlets of Langthwaite, Bailrigg, and Barrow. Acreage, 2880; population, 1598. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1876. Population, 3615. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £248 with residence. The church is in the Transitional style, and consists of chancel, nave, transepts, apse, aisles, and tower. A cemetery was formed in 1890, and is under the control of a burial board. The Royal Albert Asylum for Idiots is in this parish, and there is a national school with a small endowment.
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 | |
Poor Law union | Lancaster |
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.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Scotforth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Scotforth)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Scotforth 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: