1850 Guide page 1
 LYTHAM
PARISH Is bounded on the south and south-west by the Ribble, on
the north by the, parish, of Bispham, and on the east by the
parish of Kirkham. It is about seven -miles in length from east
to west, and two miles in breadth from north to south, and its
area in statute acres is 5289.
In 1841 it contained 2082 inhabitants, and its annual value in
the same year amounted to £8900. About two-thirds of the
cultivated land of the parish is arable, and the average rent is
from 20 to 30 shillings per statute acre. The soil is generally
good and in a high state of cultivation. Lytham Moss is a small
tract of peat land, in this parish, beneath which great numbers
of oak and elder trees have been found. |
