Place:Standish with Langtree, Lancashire, England

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NameStandish with Langtree
Alt namesStandish-with-Langtreesource: from redirect
Standishsource: from redirect
Standish with Langtreesource: modern usage
TypeAncient parish, Urban district
Coordinates53.5864°N 2.2641°W
Located inLancashire, England     (1894 - 1974)
See alsoLeyland Hundred, Lancashire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Wigan (metropolitan borough), Greater Manchester, Englandmetropolitan borough in which it has been located since 1974

Standish with Langtree was an urban district in the central-southern part of Lancashire, England from 1894 until 1974. In 1974 it was absorbed into the Wigan Metropolitan Borough of Greater Manchester, England. The urban district was a coal mining area with Standish being the original village or parish in the area and Langtree the largest coal mine. It is located on the A49 road between Chorley and Wigan, near Junction 27 of the M6 motorway.

Standish was an ancient parish in the Leyland Hundred. The Church of St Wilfrid is a Grade I listed parish church. As an ancient parish it was responsible for the following townships:

In 1866 most or all of the townships became independent civil parishes and Standish became the civil parish of Standish with Langtree.

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Standish with Langtree township and parish

In 1861, the population of the whole parish was 10,410 with the township of Standish with Langtree having 3,054 people. The township became a local board of health area in 1872 following the Local Government Act of 1858. It became an urban district of Lancashire, after the Local Government Act 1894. As explained above it is now part of Wigan Metropolitan Borough in the modern administrative county of Greater Manchester. The population of Standish with Langtree Ward, taken at the 2011 census was 12,182.

History

the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

The name Standish is derived from the Old English stan, meaning stone, and edisc, a park or enclosure. It has been variously recorded as Stanedis in 1206, Stanediss in 1219, Standissh, Stanedich and Stanedissh in 1292 and Standisch in 1330. The adjoining village of Langtree was recorded as Langetre in 1206 and Longetre in 1330. A Roman road passed through the township.

Standish and Langtree were part of the Penwortham barony in the 12th century and between 1150 and 1164, Richard Bussel, Lord of Penwortham gave them to his brother-in-law Richard Spileman. In 1212 Person:Warin Banastre (1)|Thurstan Banastre]] held them and later they were held by William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby (possibly covered in WeRelate), and then by 'the lords of Leylandshire'. The tenants adopted the local surnames, Standish and Langtree.

In 1896 the Wigan Coal and Iron Company, who also operated in nearby Haigh, owned the Broomfield, Giant's Hall, Gidlow, John, Langtree, Robin Hill, Swire and Taylor Pits. The largest of these was the Langtree Pit with over 540 employees.

Standish railway station was on the West Coast Main Line, but it closed in May 1949. Victoria Colliery has closed and has become a housing estate.

Research Tips

  • See the Wikipedia articles on parishes and civil parishes for descriptions of this lowest rung of local administration. The original parishes were ecclesiastical (described as ancient parishes), 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.
  • An urban district was a type of municipality in existence between 1894 and 1974. They were formed as a middle layer of administration between the county and the civil parish and were used for urban areas usually with populations of under 30,000. Inspecting the archives of a urban 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.
  • The terms municipal borough and county borough were adopted in 1835 replacing the historic "boroughs". Municipal boroughs generally had populations between 30,000 and 50,000; while county boroughs usually had populations of over 50,000. County boroughs had local governments independent of the county in which they were located, but municipal boroughs worked in tandem with the county administration. Wikipedia explains these terms in much greater detail.
  • 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 parish of Standish from British History Online (Victoria County Histories), published 1911
  • A description of the township of Standish with Langtree from British History Online (Victoria County Histories), published 1911
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