Forton
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FORTON, a township in Garstang parish, Lancashire; on the Preston canal and the Preston and Lancaster railway, 4 miles N of Garstang. Acres, 1, 278. Real property, £2,663; of which £55 are in quarries. Pop., 574. Houses, 131. There is an Independent chapel.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Cemeteries
- School Lane, Independent
Census
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Church Records
- School Lane, Independent
- Hollins Lane, Wesleyan Methodist
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Civil Registration
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In 1835 Forton was a township in the parish of Cockerham.Information about boundaries and administrative areas is available from A Vision of Britain through time.