Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHIRESHEAD, or Shirehead

SHIRESHEAD, or Shirehead, a chapelry in Garstang and Cockerham parishes, Lancashire; on the river Wyre, 1¾ mile N by E of Scorton r. station, and 4 N by E of Garstang. Post town, Garstang. Pop., 397. Houses, 95. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £110.* Patron, the Vicar of Cocker bam. The church is modern.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cockerham CP/AP       Garstang CP/AP       Lancashire AncC
Place names: SHIREHEAD     |     SHIRESHEAD     |     SHIRESHEAD OR SHIREHEAD
Place: Shireshead

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