Winmarleigh, Lancashire
Historical Description
Winmarleigh, a township and an ecclesiastical parish, in Garstang parish, Lancashire, 2¼ miles NW of Garstang, with a station on the Garstang and Knot End railway. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Garstang (R.S.O.) Acreage of township, 2342; population, 371. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Winmarleigh House is the chief residence. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1876, and includes part of the townships of Cabus and Nateby. Population, 471. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £275 with residence. The church was erected in 1876 by the late Lord Winmarleigh, is in the Decorated style, and consists of chancel, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, and a bell 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 | Garstang | |
Hundred | Amounderness | |
Poor Law union | Garstang |
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 Winmarleigh from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Winmarleigh)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Winmarleigh 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: