Place:Westby with Plumptons, Lancashire, England

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NameWestby with Plumptons
Alt namesPeel (westby with plumptons)source: from redirect
Moss Side (westby with plumptons)source: from redirect
Westby-with-Plumptonsource: hyphenated
Plumptonsource: Family History Library Catalog
Great Plumptonsource: hamlet in parish
Higher Ballamsource: hamlet in parish
Little Plumptonsource: hamlet in parish
Lower Ballamsource: hamlet in parish
Moss Side (Westby with Plumptons)source: hamlet in parish
Peel (Westby with Plumptons)source: hamlet in parish
Westbysource: hamlet in parish
TypeTownship, Parish
Coordinates53.779°N 2.936°W
Located inLancashire, England
See alsoAmounderness Hundred, Lancashire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Kirkham, Lancashire, Englandancient parish in which it was located
Fylde Rural, Lancashire, Englandrural district in which the parish was located 1894-1974
Fylde (borough), Lancashire, Englanddistrict municipality which covers the area since 1974
source: Family History Library Catalog


NOTE: References to the hamlets of Great Plumpton, Little Plumpton, Lower Ballam, Higher Ballam, and Westby have all been re-directed here. Moss Side and Peel are used in other parts of Lancashire as well, and have been redirected under the names Moss Side (Westby with Plumptons) and Peel (Westby with Plumptons).


the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Westby with Plumptons (#22 on map) is a civil parish in Lancashire, England. The parish has been since 1974 in the Borough of Fylde. Prior to 1974 it was situated in Fylde Rural District. In the 19th century and before, it was a township in the ancient parish of Kirkham.

The parish contains the hamlets of Great Plumpton, Little Plumpton, Lower Ballam, Higher Ballam, Moss Side (formerly Brown Moss Side), Peel, and Westby. As of the 2011 census, the parish had a population of 1,205. Westby and Plumpton were both mentioned in the Domesday Book, as "Westbi" and "Pluntun".

The land is generally low-lying, with arable land in the south and pasture in the north, which rises to 100 feet (30 m) above sea level at Great Plumpton in the northeast of the parish.

Wikipedia includes short descriptions of each of the hamlets in the parish.

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  • See the Wikipedia articles on parishes and civil parishes for descriptions of this lowest rung of local administration. The original parishes (known as ancient parishes) were ecclesiastical, under the jurisdiction of the local priest. A parish covered a specific geographical area and was sometimes equivalent to that of a manor. Sometimes, in the case of very large rural parishes, there were chapelries where a "chapel of ease" allowed parishioners to worship closer to their homes. In the 19th century the term civil parish was adopted to define parishes with a secular form of local government. In WeRelate both civil and ecclesiastical parishes are included in the type of place called a "parish". Smaller places within parishes, such as chapelries and hamlets, have been redirected into the parish in which they are located. The names of these smaller places are italicized within the text.
  • Rural districts were groups of geographically close civil parishes in existence between 1894 and 1974. They were formed as a middle layer of administration between the county and the civil parish. Inspecting the archives of a rural district will not be of much help to the genealogist or family historian, unless there is need to study land records in depth.
  • Civil registration or vital statistics and census records will be found within registration districts. To ascertain the registration district to which a parish belongs, see Registration Districts in Lancashire, part of the UK_BMD website.
  • Lancashire Online Parish Clerks provide free online information from the various parishes, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire.
  • FamilySearch Lancashire Research Wiki provides a good overview of the county and also articles on most of the individual parishes (very small or short-lived ones may have been missed).
  • Ancestry (international subscription necessary) has a number of county-wide collections of Church of England baptisms, marriages and burials, some from the 1500s, and some providing microfilm copies of the manuscript entries. There are specific collections for Liverpool (including Catholic baptisms and marriages) and for Manchester. Their databases now include electoral registers 1832-1935. Another pay site is FindMyPast.
  • A map of Lancashire circa 1888 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time includes the boundaries between the parishes and shows the hamlets within them.
  • A map of Lancashire circa 1954 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time is a similar map for a later timeframe.
  • GENUKI provides a website covering many sources of genealogical information for Lancashire. The organization is gradually updating the website and the volunteer organizers may not have yet picked up all the changes that have come with improving technology.
  • The Victoria County History for Lancashire, provided by British History Online, covers the whole of the county in six volumes (the seventh available volume [numbered Vol 2] covers religious institutions). The county is separated into its original hundreds and the volumes were first published between 1907 and 1914. Most parishes within each hundred are covered in detail. Maps within the text can contain historical information not available elsewhere.
  • A description of the township of Westby with Plumptons from British History Online (Victoria County Histories), published 1912
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