Winwick, Lancashire
Historical Description
Winwick, a village, a township, and a parish in Lancashire. The township lies 2 miles S by E of Newton-le-Willows station on the L. & N.W.R., and 2½ N of Warrington. It includes Hulme, and has a post and telegraph office under Newton-le-Willows; money order office, Wargrave. Acreage, 1440; population, 447; of the ecclesiastical parish, 687. Under the Local Government Act of 1894, Winwick and Hulme, with the addition of the township of Orford, has a parish council of six members and a chairman. The parish includes Houghton, Middleton, and Arbury township. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £1500 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Derby. The church is chiefly ancient, was partly rebuilt in 1848 and extensively improved in 1858, and has a tower with octagonal spire; it contains several monuments, brasses, and memorial windows. The endowed grammar school, founded in 1553, was closed in 1891, and the income applied by the Charity Commissioners to found scholarships in the primary schools of 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 | Winwick St. Oswald | |
Hundred | West Derby | |
Poor Law union | Warrington |
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 Winwick from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Winwick (St. Oswald))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Winwick 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: