Lancaster
An ancient, well-built, and improving town. On the summit of a hill stands
the castle, which is not ancient, but large and strong, and now serves both
as the shire house and the county gaol. On the top of this castle is a
square tower, called John of Gaunt's Chair, where there is a fine prospect
of the mountains of Cumberland, and of the course of the Lune; the view
towards the sea extending to the Isle of Man. The town hall is a handsome
structure. Lancaster carries on some foreign trade, especially to the West
Indies, America, and the Baltic. The exports are hardware, woollen goods,
candles, and cabinet work, for the making of which last it is noted; and it
has also a manufacture of sail-cloth. It is seated on the river Lune, which
here forms a port for vessels of moderate size, and over which it has a new
stone bridge of five elliptical arches. It is 235 miles from London.
Markets, Wednesday and Saturday, and one on every other Wednesday for
cattle. Population, 24,707.
(From Barclay's Complete and Universal Dictionary of 1842.)
District Central Library,
Market Square,
Lancaster
LA1 1HY
Tel: 01524 63266/7
Fax: 01524 842629
- Quernmore Rd, Cemetery
- St John, Chapel St, Green Ayre, Church of England
- St Mary (the Priory), Castle Hill, Church of England
- Centenary, St Leonard Gate, Congregational
- St Peter (Cathedral), East Road, Roman Catholic
- Meeting House Lane, Society of Friends
Lancaster Priory Gravestones.
Monumental inscriptions for St John with St Anne, the Friends Meeting House, and the United Reformed Church have been published by the
LFH&HS.
Details about the census records, and indexes for Lancaster.
- Bryar St, Baptist
- King St, Baptist
- Nelson St, Baptist
- White Cross St, Baptist
- Christ Church, Wyresdale Road, Church of England
- St Anne, Moor Lane, Church of England
- St John, Chapel St, Green Ayre, Church of England
- St Mary (the Priory), Castle Hill, Church of England
- St Thomas, Penny Street, Church of England
- Centenary, St Leonard Gate, Congregational
- Queen Street, Free Methodist
- Trinity, High St, Independent
- East Road, Independent Methodist
- Queen Street, Jehovah's Witness
- Charles St, Primitive Methodist
- Moor Lane, Primitive Methodist
- Polish Church of Our Lady, Queen of Poland, Nelson Street, Roman Catholic
- St Bernadette, Bowerham Road, Roman Catholic
- St Peter (Cathedral), East Road, Roman Catholic
- St Thomas More, Willow Lane, Roman Catholic
- St Joseph, Slyne Road, Roman Catholic, Skerton
- Ridge Lane, Salvation Army
- Meeting House Lane, Society of Friends
- Scotforth Rd, Unitarian
- St Nicholas St, Unitarian
- Brock St, United Methodist
- Trinity, Bowerham Road, United Reformed
- Greaves, Wesleyan Methodist
- Sulyard St, Wesleyan Methodist
- The Greaves, Wesleyan Methodist
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churches in the Lancaster area
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The Register Office covering the Lancaster area is
Lancaster.
Information about the
City of Lancaster.
Ask for the gazetteer for a calculation of the distance from Lancaster to another place.
A description of the town taken from the Imperial
Gazetteer 1872.
In 1835 the parish of Lancaster contained the townships of Lancaster,
Gressingham,
Poulton, Bare and Torrisholme,
Skerton,
Bulk,
Heaton with Oxcliffe,
Aldcliffe,
Ashton with Stodday,
Overton,
Thurnham,
Scotforth,
Quernmore,
Caton,
Over Wyresdale,
Bleasdale,
Preesall with Hackensall,
Stalmine,
Myerscough and
Fulwood.
Information about
boundaries and administrative areas is available from
A Vision of Britain through time.
An interesting description of
Lancaster in 1835
is available from Roger Corrie.
View maps of Lancaster and places within its boundaries.
John Speed's
map of Lancaster in 1611.
A
map of Lancaster around 1845.
A
map of Lancaster around 1890.
Histories of 21 merchant sailing ships built at Lancaster or Glasson Dock.
The Workhouse site
has an interesting description of
Lancaster
workhouse.
Penny's
Almshouses were established from a £700 endowment
left by William Penny (Mayor of Lancaster) in 1716. They were
built for 12 poor men in 1720.
For probate purposes prior to 1858, Lancaster was in the Archdeaconry of Richmond, in the Diocese of Chester.
The original wills for the Archdeaconry of Richmond are held at the
Lancashire Record Office.
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[Last updated: Wednesday, 03-Sep-2008 11:34:32 BST - Phil Stringer]
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