Ashton with Stodday is a former

township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

near Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The civil parish was created in 1866 within

Lancaster Rural District Lancaster Rural District was a rural district in the county of Lancashire, England. It was created in 1894 and abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It was made up of 22 civil parishes to the north and south of the city of Lancas ...

. The hamlet of Stodday was transferred to Lancaster civil parish and borough in 1935. The parish was abolished and incorporated into Thurnham in 1980. The population was recorded as 191 in 1871, 173 in 1931, and 87 in 1961. The parish was bordered on the north by the parish of

Aldcliffe Aldcliffe is a hamlet, and former township and civil parish, in the civil parish of Aldcliffe-with-Stodday, south-west of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. The hamlet is located on the east bank of the River Lune, and is one and a half miles so ...

, on the west by the River Lune and on the south by the

River Conder The River Conder is a river in the English county of Lancashire. The source of the River Conder is a spring at Conder Head on Black Fell near Littledale, from where the stream briefly runs north, then west through Cragg Wood. The river then sk ...

, and included the hamlets of

Stodday Stodday is a hamlet in the civil parish of Aldcliffe-with-Stodday, in the Lancaster district, in the county of Lancashire, England. It is just south of the city of Lancaster, near the A588 road and the River Lune. A mile to the south, Ashton H ...

and

Conder Green A conder (fishing), conder, in fishing, was someone who stood on the shore – usually on high ground – and signalled fishing boats as to the direction and location of shoals of fish, such as herrings, mackerel and pilchards. People * Charles Co ...

and the estate of Ashton Hall.

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* Former civil parishes in Lancashire Geography of the City of Lancaster {{Lancashire-geo-stub