Freckleton, Lancashire

Description
Freckleton, a large village and a township in Kirkham parish, Lancashire, near Naze Point, on the estuary of the Ribble, 2 1/2 miles SSE of Kirkham railway station, and 7 1/4 W of Preston. There is a post and money order office under Preston ; telegraph office, Kirkham. Acreage, 2407 ; population, 1308. A manufacture of sacks and sailcloth, which had been extensively carried on, has been discontinued, but rope and twine are made, and there is a cotton mill. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; gross yearly value, £160 with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church was built in 1838. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a Friends' meeting-house, used as a place of worship by the Plymouth Brethren.