Silverdale, Lancashire Family History Guide
Silverdale is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1754 from a chapelry in Warton (near Lancaster) Ancient Parish.
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- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1822
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A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
SILVERDALE, a chapelry, in the parish of Warton, union of Lancaster, hundred of Lonsdale south of the Sands, N. division of Lancashire, 3¾ miles (N. W.) from Yealand-Conyers; containing 252 inhabitants.
This chapelry, which is beautifully situated on Morecambe bay, comprises 1087 acres, of a good soil, with a limestone substratum. It commands views of the Lake mountains, of the district of Furness, of Fleetwood, and the coast towards Liverpool.
There are evident indications of copper, and mines have been wrought in the immediate neighbourhood, though not with much success.
Challan Hall, with 150 acres of land around it, is the property of Thomas Rodick, Esq.; and Hill House and the adjacent land belong to Thomas Inman, Esq.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Warton; net income, £80. The chapel, erected in 1679, was rebuilt in 1829, and contains 320 sittings, of which 140 are free.
On the common was formerly a large rocking-stone, 37 feet in circumference and 10 feet in height; “but,” observes Mr. King, “this has been thrown off its equipoise, and moves no longer.”
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Lancaster
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Kendal
- Diocese: Manchester
- Rural Deanery: Tunstall
- Poor Law Union: Lancaster
- Hundred: Lonsdale
- Province: York