Catterall is a village 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 authorit ...
in the
borough
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History
In the Middle A ...
of
Wyre,
Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancash ...
, England. Historically in the
Amounderness
The Amounderness Hundred () is one of the six subdivisions of the historic county of Lancashire in North West England, but the name is older than the system of hundreds first recorded in the 13th century and might best be described as the nam ...
Hundred
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to des ...
, it is situated on the
A6 between
Lancaster and
Preston, a short distance from the town of
Garstang
Garstang is an ancient market town and civil parish within the Wyre borough of Lancashire, England. It is north of the city of Preston and the same distance south of Lancaster.
In 2011, the parish had a total resident population of 4,268; ...
, and
Myerscough College
Myerscough College (pronounced as ''Myers-coe'') is a Higher and Further Education college near Bilsborrow on the Fylde in Lancashire, England.
Origins
Myerscough College was founded on 15 March 1894 as the ''Lancashire County Institute of Agr ...
. The rivers
Wyre,
Calder and
Brock run through the parish and in places form the parish boundary.
Etymology
Catterall is mentioned in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manus ...
as ''Catrehala'' Later references include Catrehal, 1272; Katerhalle, 1277; Caterhale, Caterale, 1292.
The etymology of the name suggests that the 'hala'or 'halh' part may refer to a topographical feature, indicating that the land mass forming the parish was, in times of antiquity, a 'promontory into the marsh'. This has a certain appeal, as the western edge of the parish does indeed border the flatlands of
The Fylde
The Fylde () is a coastal plain in western Lancashire, England. It is roughly a square-shaped peninsula, bounded by Morecambe Bay to the north, the Ribble estuary to the south, the Irish Sea to the west, and the foot of the Bowland hills ...
. The same source also suggests that the first section of the name may be associated with a cat. However, this is an educated guess, as no other evidence has been uncovered to support the theory, other than the observation that the old parish boundary had the appearance of a (cats?) tongue.
History
On 14 February 1716, three local men (Joseph Wadsworth and Thomas Goose of Catterall and Thomas Cartmell of
Claughton) were executed for joining the
Jacobite rebellion of 1715
The Jacobite rising of 1715 ( gd, Bliadhna Sheumais ;
or 'the Fifteen') was the attempt by James Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland for the exiled Stuarts.
At Braemar, Aberdeenshire ...
. They were reputedly executed at Stocks Lane End. In modern times, this is where Cock Robin Lane and Catterall Lane join the A6.
The parish is traversed by several important routes, including the
A6, the
M6 Motorway
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, the
West Coast Main Line
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, the B6430 and the
Lancaster Canal
The Lancaster Canal is a canal in North West England, originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in south Cumbria ( historically in Westmorland). The section around the crossing of the River Ribble was never complete ...
, all of which run, more-or-less north to south. The parish was served by
Garstang and Catterall railway station
Garstang and Catterall railway station served as the interchange between the Garstang and Knot-End Railway and the London and North Western Railway, in Lancashire, England. The station was in the parish of Barnacre-with-Bonds, close to the vill ...
, which used to stand on the West Coast Main Line, but was closed in the 1960s and later demolished.
In May 2007, Gennaro Panzuto, a member of the
Camorra, was arrested in Catterall in connection with gang-related murders.
Geography
The 2011 census showed that 2,280 people lived in the parish of Catterall, of whom 1,124 were male and 1,126 were female.
The main employer in Catterall is Franklaw Water Treatment Works on Catterall Lane. The site has developed since the 1960s from a couple of '
Dalek
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' style boreholes, to a large water treatment works, operated by
United Utilities
United Utilities Group plc (UU), the United Kingdom's largest listed water company, was founded in 1995 as a result of the merger of North West Water and NORWEB. The group manages the regulated water and waste water network in North West Engla ...
.
The other main employer is Collinson Plc, who manufacture agricultural and industrial buildings.
The adjoining parishes are
Claughton,
Kirkland,
Barnacre-with-Bonds,
Upper Rawcliffe-with-Tarnacre and
Myerscough and Bilsborrow
Myerscough and Bilsborrow () is a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Borough of Wyre in Lancashire, England. It was formed on 1 April 2003 as a merger of the former parishes of Bilsborrow and Myerscough, Lancashire, Myerscough, and l ...
.
Governance
An
electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches slightly beyond the confines of the parish and has a total population at the 2011 Census of 2,594.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Catterall
References
Bibliography
* Gelling, M., (2000), ''Place-Names in the Landscape'',Phoenix Press,
External links
Catterall Cop in Parking RowThe Catterall Cosa Nostra connection'Catterall' A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 7 (1912), pp. 320–24.A Topographical description of England - Catteral'Maps' Ordnance Survey Maps of Catterall from 1847 to 1933 'Collinson Plc' Collinson Plc, manufacturer of agricultural and industrial buildings'Family website' The Catterall Family Web-Site'Arnold Catterall' Catterall Family website
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Villages in Lancashire
Civil parishes in Lancashire
Geography of the Borough of Wyre