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John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
WYERSDALE (Over), a township-chapelry in Lancaster parish, Lancashire; on the river Wyre, 4¾ miles E by N of Bay-Horse railway station, and 7 SE of Lancaster. Post town, Lancaster. Acres, 16,938. Real property, £4,728. Pop. in 1851, 680; in 1861, 524. Houses, 90. The decrease of population arose from the destruction, by fire, of a cotton factory. The manor belongs to H. Garnett, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £170. Patron, the Vicar of Lancaster. The church is plain. There are Quaker and Wesleyan chapels, and an endowed school.
Consists of - Tarnbrook, Dukenshaw Fell, Lee Fell, Abbeystead, Lentworth Vachery(Contains Borwicks and Lentworth Hall), Ortner Vachery, Greenbank Vachery, Hays Haw Fell, Catshaw Vachery, Hawthornthwaite Vachery, Emmetts Vachery, Marshaw Fell
Christ Church, Over Wyresdale stands in an isolated position to the west of the village of Abbeystead, Lancashire, England. The church is a Grade II listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Blackburn, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the deanery of Lancaster. Its benefice is combined with those of St Mark's, Dolphinholme and St Peter's, Quernmore.
The church dates from 1733 and it was restored in 1894 by John Douglas who added a spire to the tower and built a new chancel. It is built in sandstone rubble with slate roofs and consists of a west tower, a nave with a lower chancel, a south porch, and a north vestry. The pulpit is dated 1684.
OVER WYERSDALE - a chapelry, in the parish and union of Lancaster, hundred of Lonsdale south of the Sands, N. division of Lancashire, 6 miles (N. N. E.) from Garstang; containing 679 inhabitants. This is part of the ancient forest of Lancaster; and at the Conquest is supposed to have been divided into twelve portions, and to have been given to twelve soldiers as a reward for their services. It is difficult to distinguish it in ancient records from Nether Wyersdale, in Amounderness; what is said of that township, so far as respects the descent of property, will in a great measure apply to Over Wyersdale. The district comprises about 16,600 acres, the greater portion of which is meadow and pasture; part of it is mountain, from which the most extensive views are obtained. The river Wyre or Wyer takes its rise from the mountain dells here. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £135; patron, the Vicar of Lancaster. The present chapel was erected in 1843, at a cost of £1000, and is a neat structure. William Cawthorne, in 1683, gave a school-house, with a messuage, some land, and a rent-charge of £15, for which 30 boys are instructed; and another school has an allowance of £20 per annum from the Society of Friends. A colony of Cistercian monks from Furness settled here, at Abbeystead, for a short time, before the year 1188, when they removed to Ireland, and founded Wythney Abbey.
NETHER WYERSDALE - a township, in the parish and union of Garstang, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of Lancashire, 4 miles (N. N. E.) from Garstang; containing 762 inhabitants. In the 12th century, Wyersdale was part of the possessions of the Lancasters: in the reign of Philip and Mary, John Rigmayden held the manor; and in 1605 it was held by the Gerards, of Bromley. The property afterwards passed to the family of the present Duke of Hamilton. The ancestors of the late John Fenton Cawthorne, Esq., M. P. for Lancaster, are said to have held a portion of Wyersdale for six or seven hundred years; and George III. once contemplated the revival of the barony of Wyersdale in the person of Mr. Cawthorne, whom he intended to create lord Wyersdale. The township comprises 6349 acres, and forms a very mountainous district. The scenery on the banks of the Wyre or Wyer, as the river flows along the valley, being varied by hills and ridges skirted with wood, is both bold and beautiful. Cotton and worsted spinning affords employment to the villagers of Scorton and Dolphinholme. Wyreside, an elegant mansion, has long been the residence of the Cawthorne family. Here is also the seat of Robert Garnett, Esq. The Wesleyans have a place of worship.
On the 1851 Census of Borwicks, Over Wyresdale, Lancashire, England are:Thomas Pye, Head, Married, Aged 31, Male, Farmer of 31 Acres of Land, Born O. Wyersdale, Lancashire
Fanny Pye, Wife, Married, Aged 33, Female, Farmer's Wife, Born Ellel, Lancashire
John Pye, Son, Single, Aged 7, Male, Scholar, Born O. Wyersdale, Lancashire
Lawrence Pye, Son, Single, Aged 5, Male, Scholar, Born O. Wyersdale, Lancashire
Thomas Pye, Son, Single, Aged 3, Male, Born O Wyersdale, Lancashire
Betty Pye, Daughter, Single, Aged 1, Female, Born O. Wyersdale, Lancashire
On the 1861 Census of Lentworth Hall, Over Wyersdale, Lancashire, England are:
Thomas Pye, Head, Married, Aged 41, Male, Farmer of 197 Acres of Land, Born Over Wyersdale, Lancashire
Fanny Pye, Wife, Married, Aged 43, Female, Farmer's Wife, Born Ellel, Lancashire
John Pye, Son, Single, Aged 17, Male, Farmer's Son, Born Over Wyersdale, Lancashire
Lawrence Pye, Son, Single, Aged 15, Male, Farmer's Son, Born Over Wyersdale, Lancashire
Thomas Pye, Son, Single, Aged 13, Scholar, Born Over Wyersdale, Lancashire
Betty Pye, Daughter, Single, Aged 11, Female, Scholar, Born Over Wyersdale, Lancashire
William Pye, Son, Single, Aged 9, Male, Scholar, Born Over Wyersdale, Lancashire
Dorothy Pye, Daughter, Single, Aged 6, Female, Scholar, Born Over Wyersdale, Lancashire
Margaret Pye, Servant, Unmarried, Aged 18, House Servant, Born Caterall, Lancashire
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