Croft with Southworth is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1835 from Winwick Ancient Parish; located on Lady Lane.
Other places in the parish include: Winwick with Hulme, Southworth, and Houghton, Middleton and Arbury.
Alternative names: Croft, Southworth and Croft, Southworth with Croft, Winwick Croft with Southworth
Parish church: Christ Church
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1833
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1833
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CROFT, with Southworth (Christ Church), a parish, in the union of Warrington, hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 5 miles (N. N. E.) from Warrington; containing 1155 inhabitants.
The Croft family held lands in Croft in the reign of Edward III.; Southworth gave name to the knightly family of Southworth, and both manors were possessed by Sir John Southworth in the 39th of Elizabeth. They subsequently passed to other families, and also belonged to the Roman Catholic establishment at Stonyhurst.
This is a new parish formed out of the parish of Winwick by act of parliament, in 1845. It comprises 1851 acres, whereof 1288 are meadow and pasture, and the remainder nearly all arable; the surface is level, and the soil clay and peat.
The population consists partly of handloom weavers.
The living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Earl of Derby: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £230; and there is a glebe-house, built at the expense of the rector of Winwick. The church, which is in the later English style, with a tower and spire, was erected in 1833, at the cost of £4000, defrayed by the rector of Winwick, aided by society grants.
There are places of worship for Unitarians and Methodists; and a Roman Catholic chapel.
A school is endowed with £6. 10. per annum, and a house and garden.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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England, Lancashire, Southworth-with-Croft – Cemeteries ( 4 )
Christchurch, Croft near Warrington, the monumental inscriptions, 1833-1979; the burial register, 1833-1920
Author: Bulmer, John Rubens, 1911-1996; Liverpool & S. W. Lancashire Family History Society; Church of England. Parish Church of Southworth-with-Croft (Lancashire)
Monumental inscriptions of the churchyard of St. Lewis, Croft
Author: Bulmer, John Rubens, 1911-1996; Liverpool & District Family History Society. Warrington Group; Catholic Church. St. Lewis’ Church (Southworth-with-Croft, Lancashire)
Monumental inscriptions of the churchyard of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Lewis, Croft near Warrington
Author: Bulmer, John Rubens, 1911-1996
Monumental inscriptions of the Unitarian burial ground, Lady Lane, Croft near Warrington
Author: Bulmer, John Rubens, 1911-1996; Unitarian Chapel (Croft, Lancashire)
England, Lancashire, Southworth-with-Croft – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Southworth with Croft, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Lancashire, Southworth-with-Croft – Church history ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions of the Unitarian burial ground, Lady Lane, Croft near Warrington
Author: Bulmer, John Rubens, 1911-1996; Unitarian Chapel (Croft, Lancashire)
England, Lancashire, Southworth-with-Croft – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Newton-in-Mackerfield, 1834-1893
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Newton-in-Mackerfield (Lancashire); Church of England. Parish Church of Southworth-with-Croft (Lancashire)
Christchurch, Croft near Warrington, the monumental inscriptions, 1833-1979; the burial register, 1833-1920
Author: Bulmer, John Rubens, 1911-1996; Liverpool & S. W. Lancashire Family History Society; Church of England. Parish Church of Southworth-with-Croft (Lancashire)
Newchurch (Culcheth), Lancashire, register of baptisms and burials, January 1813 – June 1841
Author: Bulmer, John Rubens, 1911-1996; Turner, M.; Church of England. Parish Church of Southworth-with-Croft (Lancashire); Church of England. Parish Church of Newchurch (Lancashire)
Parish of Winwick, Chapelry of Newchurch, Chapelry of Croft-with-Southworth
Author: Bulmer, John Rubens, 1911-1996; Church of England. Parish Church of Winwick (Lancashire); Church of England. Parish Church of Southworth-with-Croft (Lancashire); Church of England. Parish Church of Newchurch (Lancashire)
Parish registers for Southworth-with-Croft, 1833-1989
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Southworth-with-Croft (Lancashire)
A register of Risley Chapel and Croft Unitarian Chapel near Warrington : baptisms, 1787-1884; burials 1808-1899
Author: Bulmer, John Rubens, 1911-1996; Unitarian Chapel (Croft, Lancashire); Presbyterian Church (Risley, Lancashire)
England, Lancashire, Southworth-with-Croft – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Southworth Hall, Roman Catholic Church, Lancs., Eng
Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Warrington
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Chester
- Rural Deanery: Winwick
- Poor Law Union: Warrington
- Hundred: West Derby
- Province: York