Barton is a small village in the county of
Lancashire, England. It is approximately west from
Ormskirk, and less than west from the
A5147 road. Barton sits on the
West Lancashire Coastal Plain, and is from the
Irish Sea coast. The village lies within the
civil parish of
Downholland.
Barton's listing in the 1086 ''
Domesday Book'' shows
Roger the Poitevin as
lord and
Tenant-in-chief. At the time Barton was in the
Hundred of West Derby in the county of
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...
.
The Manor of Barton was held by the Clifton family and, from about 1212, by the Barton family. The last Barton heiress, Fleetwood Barton (1595-1664) married into the Shuttleworth family (her first marriage to
Viscount Molyneux was annulled). Her husband,
Richard Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe Hall, supported the Parliamentary side in the
English Civil War. The Shuttleworths held the manor until 1833, when it was sold to the Preston industrialist, George Jacson.
The village had its own
Barton railway station
Barton was a railway station in the village of Barton, Lancashire, on the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway. Situated to the south of the roadbridge on Station Road (off the A5147), the station opened on 1 November 1887, and w ...
, which opened in 1887. The line was closed completely in 1952.
See also
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Listed buildings in Downholland
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References
External links
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Villages in Lancashire
Geography of the Borough of West Lancashire
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