Lytham Lancashire Family History Guide
Lytham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Lancashire. Lytham St John is an Ecclesiastical Parish, created in 1851 from Lytham Parish.
Parish churches: St. Cuthbert, St John
Parish registers begin: 1679
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic, Scotch Baptist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Parish History
Beeton’s British Gazetteer 1870
LYTHAM, a watering-place of England, in Lancashire, situated on the Ribble, 6 miles S.W. from Kirkham. It contains two churches, several chapels for nonconformists, baths, and assembly-rooms.
The inhabitants are chiefly employed in shipbuilding and sail making. Post town, Preston. It has a money ord. off. Pop. 3194. It is a telegraph station, and a station on the Manchester and Preston and Wyre branch of the London and North Western Railway.
Source: Beeton’s British Gazetteer 1870. Ward, Lock & Tyler, Paternoster Row, London.
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LYTHAM, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in Fylde district, Lancashire. The town stands on the N shore of the Ribble estuary, at the meeting-point of two branch railways from respectively the Preston and Wyre railway and the town of Blackpool, 8 miles SSE of Blackpool, and 12 W of Preston.
It is a sub-port to Preston, a watering-place, and a seat of petty sessions; presents a new, neat, and clean appearance; enjoys fine amenities of beach, environs, and climate; has undergone many improvements by a board of commissioners under a local act; and has a post office under Preston, a railway station with telegraph, a neat market-house of 1848, a county constabulary station, assembly-rooms, public baths, billiard-rooms, several first-class hotels, a number of respectable lodging-houses, two churches, three dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, two endowed schools, two national schools, several good private and boarding schools, a long marine parade, and a long steamboat pier.
St. Cuthbert’s or the parochial church was rebuilt in 1834; is a neat structure of red brick; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and tower; and contains monuments of the Clifton family.
St. John’s church stands on the E beach; was built in 1850; and is a stone edifice in the early English style.
The Independent chapel stands in Westby-street, and is a handsome recent structure.
The marine parade was formed by levelling the beach; is 2 miles long; and commands a fine view across the estuary. The pier was constructed in 1865; is 914 feet long; and, besides serving for steamboats from Blackpool, Southport, and other places, forms a splendid promenade.
The branch railway from the Preston and Wyre line was opened in 1846; and that from Blackpool was opened in 1863. Lytham Pool, about a mile E of the town, serves as an entrepôt to Preston; accommodates large vessels for the discharging of their cargoes into smaller crafts; and has a graving dock for building and repairing vessels. A custom-house is on the E beach; and a lifeboat station is near.
The parish comprises 5,177 acres of land, and 10,365 of water or foreshore. Real property, £15,425; of which £135 are in gas-works. Pop in 1851,2,698; in 1861, 3,194. Houses, 552. The increase of pop. arose mainly from the attractions of the town as a watering-place.
The manor, with Lytham Hall, belongs to Col. John Talbot Clifton. The hall stands on the NW side of the town; was erected between 1757 and 1764: and is a spacious mansion. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Durham abbey, was founded on or near the site of the Hall, in the time of Richard I., by Roger Fitz-Roger; and some remains of it are included in the Hall.
A portion of the parish which had a pop. of 1,579 in 1861 was constituted a separate charge, under the name of L. St. John, in 1851.
The head living is a vicarage, that of St. John a p. curacy, in the dio. of Chester. Value of the head living, £131: of St. John, £60. Patron of both, Col. J. T. Clifton.
The sub-district contains also the Poulton-le-Fylde hamlet of Little Marton. Pop., 3,627. Houses, 620.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Directories
Lytham Directory of Westmorland by Mannex Co 1851
Parish Registers
The Registers of Lytham 1679 to 1761
The Catholic Registers of St Peter’s, Lytham, Lancashire. 1758-1829.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Cemeteries
Census
Census returns for Lytham, 1841-1891
Church history
The history of the parish of Lytham in the county of Lancaster Author: Fishwick, Henry, 1835-1914
The history of the parish of Lytham in the county of Lancaster Author: Fishwick, Henry, 1835-1914
Church Records
Computer printout of Lytham, Lancs., Eng
Computer printout of Lytham, St. Peter Roman Catholic Church, Lancs., Eng
Directories
General and commercial directory of Preston, Blackpool, Fleetwood, Lytham, St. Annes ..
History
Our windmill heritage : the story of Lytham windmill Author: Adams, Marilyn
Manors
Maps
Lytham, 1908 Author: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Fylde
- 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: Fylde
- Hundred: Amounderness
- Province: York