Heaton-with-Oxcliffe

Human settlement in England

Heaton-with-Oxcliffe

District

Lancaster

Lancashire

Region

North West

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54°02′10″N 2°51′00″W / 54.036°N 2.850°W / 54.036; -2.850

Heaton-with-Oxcliffe is a civil parish situated near the River Lune. it is in the City of Lancaster and the English county of Lancashire. The parish contains the villages of Heaton, Oxcliffe Hill, plus the area around Salt Ayre, and had a population of 2,225 recorded in the 2001 census,^[1] decreasing to 2,059 at the 2011 census.^[2]

The Golden Ball Inn

The area around the Golden Ball Inn, in Oxcliffe, is locally known as Snatchems, as it was once a place that press gangs frequented. The front door of the Inn is 6 feet (1.8 m) above the road, as the road frequently floods on a spring tide, the lower car park displaying a white line on the wall, about 5 feet (1.5 m) above the ground, showing the highest level that the Lune reached during a major flood in 1967.

Notable people

Mary Ann Bibby (c.1832–1910), New Zealand storekeeper, born in Heaton^[3]

References

^ "Parish headcount" (PDF). Lancashire County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2006. Retrieved 10 January 2009.
^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Heaton-with-Oxcliffe Parish (E04005190)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
^ Gray, Margaret A. "Mary Ann Bibby". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.

External links

Heaton with Oxcliffe: historical and genealogical information at GENUKI.

Media related to Heaton-with-Oxcliffe at Wikimedia Commons

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