Bonds is a village in
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...
, England. It lies immediately south of
Garstang town centre, on the opposite bank of the
River Wyre
The River Wyre, in Lancashire, England, flows into the Irish Sea at Fleetwood. It is 28 miles (45 km) long and has a sheltered estuary which penetrates deep into the Fylde peninsula.
Etymology
The name ''Wyre'' is of pre-Roman, likely, ...
. It is bounded by 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 (Historic counties of England, historically in Westmorland). The section around the crossing of the River ...
to the south and west. Garstang, Bonds,
Bowgreave and
Catterall form an almost continuous built-up area, which was bypassed by the
A6 road in 1928.
[The Times, 28 Oct 1928, page 18] (Some sources state, incorrectly, that this occurred in 1926.). While it is often regarded as a ''de facto'' suburb of Garstang, Bonds forms part of a different
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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
:
Barnacre-with-Bonds.
The Roman Catholic
church of St Mary and St Michael is a
Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...
building consecrated in 1858, superseding a chapel built in 1784.)
east of the village is the ruin of
Greenhalgh Castle, built in 1490 for
Thomas Stanley.
See also
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Listed buildings in Barnacre-with-Bonds
Notes
References
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External links
Barnacre-with-Bonds Parish Council
Villages in Lancashire
Garstang
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