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The Parish of Hesketh with Becconsall
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A village and a parish in Ormskirk district, Lancashire. The village stands on the coast of the Ribble estuary, near the influx of the Douglas river, 4 miles NW of Croston r. station, and 8 SW of Preston.

The parish contains also the seaport village of Hesketh Bank, and the village of Becconsall. Post-town, Croston, under Preston. Acres, 4,735; of which 1,685 are water. Real property, £4,499. Pop. in 1851, 692; in 1861, 804. Houses, 153. The increase of pop. arose from the erection of cottages, and from the presence of labourers in reclaiming marsh land.

The property is divided among a few. A large tract, between Hesketh and Cockerham, was overwhelmed by the sea in 1720. The Ribble estuary here was once 2-1/2 miles wide, and fordable at low water; but during the five years ending in 1855, a vast tract of valuable marsh land was reclaimed from it by deepening and narrowing the river’s bed, and by forming an embankment several miles long.

The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Becconsall, in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £300. Patron, Sir T.G. Hesketh, Bart. The church is a brick edifice, and consists of nave, aisle, and chancel. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

From: The Imperial Gazetteer of England And Wales, by John Marius Wilson, London, 1872.

Entered here 21 November 2004 by Lynn Ransom Burton.


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