Winmarleigh, Lancashire

Description
Winmarleigh, a township and an ecclesiastical parish, in Garstang parish, Lancashire, 2 1/4 miles NW of Garstang, with a station on the Garstang and Knot End railway. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Garstang (R.S.O.) Acreage of township, 2342; population, 371. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Winmarleigh House is the chief residence. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1876, and includes part of the townships of Cabus and Nateby. Population, 471. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £275 with residence. The church was erected in 1876 by the late Lord Winmarleigh, is in the Decorated style, and consists of chancel, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, and a bell turret.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5