Adlington, Lancashire Family History

Adlington is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1840 from Standish Ancient Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1839

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Adlington, 2½ m. N.E. Standish. P. 1130.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840

ADLINGTON, a township in the parish of Standish, co.-palatine of Lancaster; 4 miles north from Wigan, 1 east of the Wigan and Preston railway. Pop., in 1801, 470; in 1831, 1,082. Houses 206. Acres 990. A. P. £2,586. Poor rates, in 1837, £200. A new church has been erected here by the parliamentary commissioners.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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England, Lancashire, Adlington – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Christ Church, Adlington, closed burial ground : names & dates of death from tombstones
Author: Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society

England, Lancashire, Adlington – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Adlington, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Lancashire, Adlington – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts of Standish Parish Church and Chapelries of Coppull and Adlington, 1611-1865
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Standish (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Coppull (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Adlington (Lancashire)

Parish registers for Adlington, 1839-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Adlington (Lancashire)

England, Lancashire, Adlington – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Adlington, Lancashire, England

Lancashire Historical Directories

Administration

  • County: Lancashire
  • Civil Registration District: Chorley
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Manchester
  • Rural Deanery: Leyland
  • Poor Law Union: Chorley
  • Hundred: Leyland
  • Province: York