Description
Hambleton, a township-chapelry in Kirkham parish, Lancashire, on the river Wyre, 3 miles NE of Poulton railway station, and 7 1/2 WSW of Garstang. It has a post office under Preston; money order and telegraph office, Poulton-le-Fyld. Acreage, 1553, of which 130 are water; population, 367. A fine bridge over the Wyre was erected in 1864, at a cost of £13, 000. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £175. Patron, the Vicar of Kirk-ham. The church was rebuilt in 1749 and restored in 1877.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
