Upholland, Lancashire
Historical Description
Upholland, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Wigan parish, Lancashire. The village stands 1 mile NNW of Orrell railway station, and 4 miles W of Wigan, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wigan, and a cattle and horse fair on Easter Monday. The township contains also the hamlets of Roby Mill, Crawford, and Dig Moor, is governed by a district council, and comprises 4685 acres; population, 4443. The manor belongs to the Earl of Lathom. Holland Grove is a chief residence. A Benedictine priory was founded in 1319 by Sir R. de Holland, and has left some remains besides the church. There are collieries, stone and slate are quarried, and fire-bricks are made. The ecclesiastical parish is more extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1882. Population, 6666. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £187. Patron, the Rector of Wigan. The church was the chapel of the priory, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, W porch, and embattled western tower. It was restored and enlarged in 1883. There are an endowed grammar school founded in 1668 and reconstituted in 1877, Wesleyan, Primitive, and Free Methodist chapels, a Diocesan Roman Catholic College erected in 1883 for the education of the clergy for the Roman Catholic diocese of Liverpool, and charities £100. The schools at Crawford and Dig Moor are used for divine service on Sundays.
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 | Halsall | |
Hundred | West Derby | |
Poor Law union | Wigan |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Registers of St Thomas the Martyr, Upholland 1600-1735, are available to browse online.
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 Upholland from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Holland, Up)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: