In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Catterall like this:
CATTERALL, a township in Garstang parish, Lancashire; on the river Wyre, adjacent to the Lancaster canal, and to the Lancaster and Preston railway, 1½ mile S by W of Garstang. It has a post office under Garstang. Acres, 1,733. Real property,. £3,851. Pop., 867. Houses, 168. Catterall-House is the seat of A. Simpson, Esq. There are two large cotton mills, Caldervale church, and a Wesleyan chapel.
Catterall through time
Catterall is now part of Wyre district. Click here for graphs and data of how Wyre has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Catterall itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Catterall, in Wyre and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10040
Date accessed: 08th May 2024
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