Hambleton, Lancashire Family History Guide

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Hambleton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1738 from a chapelry in Kirkham Ancient Parish.

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Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1695
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

HAMBLETON, an ecclesiastical parish, in the parish of Kirkham, union of Garstang, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of Lancashire, 17 miles (N. W. by W.) from Preston; containing 349 inhabitants.

This place is mentioned in the Domesday survey. It was given by King John to an ancestor of the Sherburns, who were succeeded in the possession of the manor by the Weld family. Hambleton is situated on the northern bank of the navigable river Wyre, by which it is separated from the rest of the parish; and comprises 1322a. 2r. 4p., whereof about 504 acres are arable, 597 pasture, 191 meadow, and a very small portion woodland.

The Wyre, which is here 500 yards in breadth, is crossed by a ferry to Poulton, called Shard ferry. “This river,” Dr. Leigh observes, “affords a pearl-fishing, pearls being frequently found in large muscles, named by the inhabitants Hambleton hookins, from their manner of taking them, which is done by plucking them from their skeers or beds with hooks:” “these pearl-muscles,” he adds, “are very common in Lancashire.”

Hambleton long formed a chapelry in the parish; but by an order in council made 21st January, 1846, it was constituted a separate benefice. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Kirkham; net income, about £125. The tithes have been commuted for £178. 13. payable to the Dean and Chapter of Christ-Church, Oxford, and £35. 19. 8. to the vicar. The church is a plain brick building, erected in 1749, on the site of a very ancient chapel, of which the date is unknown.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Lancashire, Hambleton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
The Blessed Virgin Mary, Hambleton, index of monumental inscriptions, 1700-1997 : Church Lane, Hambleton, Poulton -le-Fylde, Lancashire (O.S. sheet 102, grid ref. SD 378 425)
Author: Peaker, Roy; Kay, R. S.; Kay, G.; Church of England. Chapelry of Hambleton (Lancashire)

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

England, Lancashire, Hambleton – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Hambleton, 1813-1879
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hambleton (Lancashire); Church of England. Chapelry of Lund (Lancashire)

Parish registers for Hambleton, 1695-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hambleton (Lancashire)

The Parish registers of Hambleton, (Lancashire), 1695-1812
Author: Shaw, Robert Cunliffe; Church of England. Chapelry of Hambleton (Lancashire)

England, Lancashire, Hambleton – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Hambleton, Lancs., Eng

Administration

  • County: Lancashire
  • Civil Registration District: Garstang
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Amounderness
  • Diocese: Manchester
  • Rural Deanery: Amounderness
  • Poor Law Union: Garstang
  • Hundred: Amounderness
  • Province: York