Weeton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Weeton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Kirkham parish, Lancashire. The township lies adjacent to the Preston and Wyre railway, 3½ miles NW by W of Kirkham town and railway station. It has a post office under Preston; money order and telegraph office, Wesham. Acreage, 2973; population, 378. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Derby. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1846, and comprises Great and Little Plumpton, Greenhaigh and Esprick, and part of Westby. Population, 877. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £180 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Kirkham. The church was built in 1842, and thoroughly restored in 1880. It is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, N porch, and turret.
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 | Kirkham | |
Hundred | Amounderness | |
Poor Law union | the Fylde |
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 Weeton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Weeton 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: