Source Information

Ancestry.com. The New Lancashire Gazetteer or Topographical Dictionary, 1830 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: Stephen Reynolds Clarke. The New Lancashire Gazetteer or Topographical Dictionary, 1830. Henry Teesdale and Co., 1830.

About The New Lancashire Gazetteer or Topographical Dictionary, 1830

This topographical dictionary for Lancashire features descriptions of hundreds, boroughs, towns, parishes, and other locales. Entries also include history; population numbers from the 1821 census; ecclesiastical, medical, and educational institutions; fairs and court sessions; and biographies. It’s an ideal reference work for locating where your ancestors lived in early-1800s Lancashire and getting a sense of their community and surroundings.

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