Woodland, Lancashire Family History Guide

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Woodland is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1731 from a chapelry in Kirkby Ireleth Ancient Parish.

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Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1745
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1836

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WOODLAND and HEATHWAITE, a chapelry, with a r. station, in Kirkby-Ireleth parish, Lancashire; on the Coniston railway, 3½ miles NNE of Broughton-in-Furness. Post town, Broughton-in-Furness, under Ulverstone. Rated property, £603. Pop., 303. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £68. Patrons, the Land-owners. The church is good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

WOODLAND, a chapelry, in the parish of Kirkby-Ireleth, union of Ulverston, hundred of Lonsdale north of the Sands, N. division of Lancashire, 8¼ miles (N. N. W.) from Ulverston; containing, with Heathwaite, 331 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £68; patrons, the Landowners. The chapel was built in 1689, and repaired in 1822.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

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England, Lancashire, Woodland and Heathwaite – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Kirkby-Ireleth, 1727-1882
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kirkby-Ireleth (Lancashire)

Furness registers
Author: Lancashire Parish Register Society

Parish registers for Woodland and Heathwaite, 1748-1904
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Woodland and Heathwaite (Lancashire)

The register of the chapel of Woodland : baptisms, 1735-1737; burials, 1748
Author: Jones, Aidan C. J.; Church of England. Chapelry of Woodland and Heathwaite (Lancashire)

Administration

  • County: Lancashire
  • Civil Registration District: Ulverstone
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of York
  • Diocese: Chester
  • Rural Deanery: Furness and Cartmel
  • Poor Law Union: Ulverston
  • Hundred: Lonsdale
  • Province: York