. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED KIRKHAM KIRKHAM KIRKHAM MEDLAR-WITH-WESHAM RIBBY-WITH-WREA BRYNING-WITH-KELLAMERGH CLIFTON-WITH-SALWICK NEWTON-WITH-SCALES FRECKLETON WARTON WESTBY-WITH-PLUMPTONS WEETON-WITH-PREESE TREALES, ROSEACRE AND WHARLES GREENHALGH-WITH-THISTLETON LITTLE ECCLESTON-WITH-LARBRECK SINGLETON HAMBLETON GOOSNARGH WHITTINGHAM In addition to the township which affords a name to the whole, the parish of Kirkham contains thirteen others extending north from the Ribble to the Wyre, district. Thus, after other parishes had be
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. AMOUNDERNESS HUNDRED KIRKHAM KIRKHAM KIRKHAM MEDLAR-WITH-WESHAM RIBBY-WITH-WREA BRYNING-WITH-KELLAMERGH CLIFTON-WITH-SALWICK NEWTON-WITH-SCALES FRECKLETON WARTON WESTBY-WITH-PLUMPTONS WEETON-WITH-PREESE TREALES, ROSEACRE AND WHARLES GREENHALGH-WITH-THISTLETON LITTLE ECCLESTON-WITH-LARBRECK SINGLETON HAMBLETON GOOSNARGH WHITTINGHAM In addition to the township which affords a name to the whole, the parish of Kirkham contains thirteen others extending north from the Ribble to the Wyre, district. Thus, after other parishes had been cut off, the detached fragments of Goosnargh remained subject to Kirkham ; and in early times the rectors and. a distance of 8 miles, one on the further side of the latter river, and the two townships of Goosnargh and Whittingham, to the east, quite detached from the main part, Newsham again being a detached hamlet of Goosnargh. The area of Kirkham proper is 33,564^ acres,and of Goosnargh chapelry 11,864, making a total of 45,428^ acres, including 2,788 acres of tidal water. The population in 1901 was There are indications in addition to the name to show that Kirkham was the ecclesiastical head of the vicars seem to have been also usually deans of Amoun- derness. Otherwise there is little to notice in the history. The great lords, temporal and spiritual, were non-resident. The chief local family was that of Clifton in the south ; the others appear to have been little more than yeomen, though some acquired greater importance in course of time. The parish is comparatively seldom mentioned in the records. The 'fifteenth,' which became fixed about the 15th century, shows the relative importance of the various townships at that time,2 and the county lay, 1 The total is composed thus : Kirk- ham proper, 11,138 ; Goosnargh, 4,327. Of the former of these, the townships of Kirkham and Wesham contain half. 2 Gregson, Fragments (ed. Harland), 19. The details are: Kirkham, 161. \d.; Bry
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