Barton, Lancashire Family History Guide
Barton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created before 1851 from Preston St Wilfrid Ancient Parish.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1850
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1850
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Adjacent Parishes
Barton Parish Registers
The Catholic Registers Of St. Mary’s, Formerly St. Laurence’s, Newhouse, Near Preston, Lancashire 1774 to 1834. Lancashire registers I : Catholic Record Society (Great Britain) – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BARTON, a township, in the parish and union of Preston, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 4½ miles (N. N. W.) from Preston; containing 413 inhabitants.
It lies on the road, railway, and canal from Preston to Lancaster, and comprises 2400 acres; about 600 are arable, 500 meadow, 90 wood, and the remainder pasture. The surface is undulated, being at the foot of the Bleasdale fells, the peculiar swell of which is continued in a lower degree throughout the township; and the distant fells, and the winding, rural, and wooded lanes, render the scenery varied and pleasing. From the upper grounds are obtained extensive views over the level Fylde, with the sea beyond, embracing the Cumberland and Welsh hills when the atmosphere is clear.
The soil is deep and productive, but retentive of moisture, as is the subsoil, which for the most part is a reddish clay, with occasionally marl, sand, peat, and limestone. There are indications of coal in the higher parts; and a quarry of limestone is wrought, more valuable for building purposes than for burning.
The township constitutes part of the chapelry of Broughton, and there is a private chapel on the Barton estate for the convenience of the tenantry, the surplus seats being let to the inhabitants of the adjoining township of Myerscough. This chapel, which was in existence before the Reformation, is in the Italian-Gothic style, with a handsome doorway, and has a stained window enriched with the arms of the families now and formerly connected with the estate: the building was enlarged in 1845, by the late George Jacson, Esq., at a considerable expense.
Barton Cross, a conspicuous and venerable ruin, which stood where three lanes meet, was mischievously pulled down by some idle persons in 1845.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Cemeteries
St. Lawrence, Barton, monumental inscriptions Author: Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society
Census
Census returns for Barton, 1841-1891
Church Records
Directories
Eccles, Patricroft, Winton, Monton, and Barton directory Author: Thompson, Hargreaves
Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Preston
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Amounderness
- Diocese: Manchester
- Rural Deanery: Amounderness
- Poor Law Union: Preston
- Hundred: Amounderness
- Province: York