Warton (near Kirkham), Lancashire Family History Guide
Warton (near Kirkham) is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1724 from a chapelry in Kirkham Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Freckleton.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Paul
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1848
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1726
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
WARTON, an ecclesiastical parish, in the parish of Kirkham, union of the Fylde, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of Lancashire; comprising the townships of Warton, Freckleton, and Bryning with Kellamergh; and containing 1669 inhabitants, of whom 522 are in Warton township, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from Kirkham.
Warton appears to have belonged to the lord of Wood-Plumpton, by intermarriage with whose heiress the Betham family became connected with the property. The last of the Bethams was Roger, whose daughter married Sir Robert Middleton, of Leighton, in the reign of Richard III. In the 7th of Henry VIII. the manor of Warton was held by Richard Singleton, of Broughton Tower, and Johanna Standishe. About three-fourths of the township are now the property of Thomas Clifton, Esq., of Lytham Hall.
The parish is situated on the estuary of the Ribble, which bounds it on the south: there are fine views of the opposite shore; and for the safe passage over the Ribble, a guide is stationed at Warton, who conducts strangers to Hesketh-Bank. In the township are 1534a. 1r. 13p., whereof two-thirds are arable, and the remainder pasture. Warton Lodge is the residence of James Fair, Esq., agent to Mr. Clifton.
The parish was formed in 1846: the living is a perpetual curacy, with a net income of £93. 15., and a house; patrons, the Dean and Canons of Christ-Church, Oxford. The great tithes for Warton township have been commuted for £198, and the tithes of the Vicar of Kirkham for £77. 12. 4. The church, dedicated to St. Paul, was consecrated as a chapel in 1725, and is a neat structure with a tower.
A school is endowed with an annual income of nearly £100.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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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