Description
Gressingham, a township and a chapelry in Lancaster parish, Lancashire, on the river Lune, 2 miles NW of Hornby railway station, and 8 NE of Lancaster. The township includes Eskrigg hamlet, and its post town and money order and telegraph office is Hornby, under Lancaster. Acreage, 2015; population, 147. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, c£94 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Lancaster. The church is ancient, of various dates, and was partially rebuilt in 1861.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
