Tarleton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Tarleton, a village and a parish in Lancashire. The village stands near the river Douglas, 1½ mile from Hesketh Bank station on the West Lancashire railway,and 8 miles NNE of Ormskirk, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Preston. The parish is cut into three divisions, and comprises .5553 acres; population, 1772. The manor formerly belonged to the baronet family of Hesketh and Lord Lilford, but is now owned by some seventy freeholders. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £791 with residence. The church, dedicated to Holy Trinity, erected in 1888, is in the Early English and Decorated styles, and consists of chancel, nave, and aisles. The present church superseded one built in 1719, which still stands, but is now used chiefly as a mortuary chapel. There are a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, and an endowed school with £35 a year. Lord Lilford is lord of the manor, and owns about half the parish.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Tarleton St. Mary | |
Hundred | Leyland | |
Poor Law union | Ormskirk |
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 Tarleton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tarleton (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Tarleton 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: