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Saint Lawrence's church
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Barton
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Barton
Location within Lancashire
Area3.81 sq mi (9.9 km2)  [1] 987.66 hectares
Population1,150 (2011)
•  Density 302/sq mi (117/km2)
OS grid reference SD516373
Civil parish
  • Barton
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town PRESTON
Postcode district PR3
Dialling code 01772
Police Lancashire
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53°49′48″N2°44′06″W / 53.830°N 2.735°W / 53.830; -2.735
Civil parishes in the City of Preston

Barton is a linear village and civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England. The parish had a population of 1,150, of whom 552 were male and 598 were female, according to the 2011 census. [1]

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Geography

The village is about 6 miles (10 km) north of Preston and 2 miles (3 km) north of Broughton. The parish is bound by the A6 road to the west. A bridge carries the A6 over the West Coast Main Line railway north of the village hall. The M6 motorway also passes through the parish, splitting the village, west of the motorway, from the rest of the parish.

Barton Brook flows north east to south west through the parish and is so named from the point where Sparling Brook joins Westfield Brook south of Barton Old Hall. [2] A marker for the parish boundary with Broughton is on the A6 at Cardwell Bridge over the brook. The bridge was rebuilt in 1921 after being damaged by floods. [3]

Barton Grange was built as the country residence for John Healey, a local mill owner and was later the home of Levi Collison MP. In 1940 it was requisitioned by the War Office and is now a hotel. [4]

Barton is named on the base of three milestones along the Garstang Road. One is now in Broughton after parish boundary changes. All three are listed by Historic England.

History

The parish church of St Lawrence was re-built in 1895 to a design by Richard Knill Freeman. [5] [6] It is a Grade II listed building. [7] It is part of the Fellside Team of parishes. [8]

The Boar's Head public house on the Garstang Road near St Lawrence's was part of village life for two hundred years. Its external appearance was described in 1872; rails at the front, little white stones all round bordered by bright flowers, "scrupulously clean" front steps with roses blooming above, and a "fierce yet faded representation of a wild animal's head, with savage tusks, and a tongue swinging beautifully to the left". [9] The public house closed in 2017, the building was severely damaged by a deliberately started fire two years later and demolished in 2022 to make way for a housing development. [10]

Barton and Broughton railway station at Newsham, ¾ mile to the south of Barton, opened in 1840 and closed to passenger traffic in 1939. [11]

Amenities

Barton St Lawrence CofE Primary School is on Jepps Avenue. The village hall on the northern edge of the village was built in 1924. [12] Barton Bowling Club and Barton and Myerscough Tennis Club each have facilities next to the hall.

Newsham

Newsham was added to Barton parish in 1894; it was previously a detached part of Goosnargh parish. [2] St Mary's Newhouse Catholic Church in Station Lane, Newsham was consecrated in 1906, the building replacing earlier ones. [13] St Mary & St Andrew's Catholic Primary School, previously known as Newhouse School, also on Station Lane, is a 1988 amalgamation on the existing site of St Mary's with St Andrew's, Cottam. The school buildings date from 1857. [14] A. Hewitson who wrote regular columns for the Preston Chronicle in the 1870s under the nom de plume Atticus failed to be stirred by the views from the catholic chapel, saying, "nothing very picturesque can be seen . . . ". [15]

Governance

Barton is within the City of Preston electoral ward of Preston Rural North, and the Preston Rural electoral division of Lancashire County Council. The civil parish of Barton was part of Preston Rural District throughout its existence from 1894 to 1974. [16] In 1974 the parish became part of the Borough of Preston, which became a city in 2002.

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References

  1. 1 2 UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Barton Parish (E04005234)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  2. 1 2 Farrer, William; Brownbill, J (1912). Township:Barton in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 7. London: Victoria County History. pp. 127–128 – via British History Online.
  3. ↑ "Barton Brook in flood after Saturdays rains" . Lancashire Post . No. 10748. 24 October 1921. p. 2. Retrieved 3 September 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "A short history of Barton Grange". Barton Grange Hotel.
  5. ↑ Church of St Lawrence, Barton, Archiseek, retrieved February 2011
  6. ↑ "Knill Freeman". Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "Church of Saint Lawrence - Barton - Lancashire - England". British Listed Buildings.
  8. ↑ "Fellside Team Ministry - Saint Lawrence (Barton)". Archived from the original on 18 October 2014.
  9. ↑ Atticus (Hewitson, A) (1872). Our Country Churches and Chapels: Antiquarian, Historical, Ecclesiastical and Critical Sketches. "Chronicle" Office, Preston and Simpkin, Marshall and Company, London. p. 65. Retrieved 30 August 2023– via Google Books.
  10. ↑ Faulkener, Paul (8 November 2021). "Historic Preston pub that was gutted in an arson attack is to be flattened". Lancashire Post. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  11. ↑ Quick, Michael (September 2022). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain - A Chronology (PDF) (5th ed.). Railway and Canal History Society. p. 70. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
  12. ↑ "About". Barton Village Hall. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  13. ↑ "St Mary Newhouse: Home". www.stmarynewhouse.co.uk. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
  14. ↑ "Background Information". St Mary & St Andrew's Catholic Primary School. 21 September 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
  15. ↑ Atticus (1872). Our Country Churches and Chapels: Antiquarian, Historical, Ecclesiastical and Critical Sketches. London: Simpkin & Marshall. p. 555.
  16. ↑ Preston RD, Vision of Britain, accessed 9 June 2014

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