Description
Barton, a township, forming with the townships of Myerscough and Billsborough and the hamlet of Newsham the parish of St Lawrence Barton, in the rural deanery of Preston, Lancashire. The remaining portion of Barton is included in the parish of Broughton. The township has a station on the N.W.R., 5 1/2 miles N of Preston. The area of the parish is 2707 acres ; population of the civil parish, 338; of the ecclesiastical, 885. Barton Hall and Barton Lodge are within the limits. Its post town is Preston; money order and telegraph office, Broughton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester ; net value, £220 with residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
