Scarisbrick, Lancashire

Description
Scarisbrick, a village and a township in Ormskirk parish, Lancashire. The village stands on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 3 miles NW of Ormskirk, and 2 from Bescar Lane station on the L. & Y.R. It has a post office under Ormskirk ; money order office, Ormskirk; telegraph office, Bescar Lane (R.S.) The township contains also the hamlets of Bescar and Snape Green. Acreage, 8397 acres; population, 2237; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1734. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. The manor, with Scarisbrick Hall, belongs to the Marquis de Casteja. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £204. Patron, the Vicar of Ormskirk. The church is in the Later English style. There is a Roman Catholic chapel erected in 1888-89.