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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wennington like this:
WENNINGTON, a township in Melling parish, Lancashire; on the Lancaster and Settle railway, at the junction of the new line to Furness, 6 miles S by E of Kirkby-Lonsdale. It has .a r station with telegraph. Acres, 830. Real property, £1,300. Pop., 180. Houses, 33. W. Hall is the seat of W. A. F. Saunders, Esq.
Wennington is now part of LANCASTER District. Click here for graphs and data of how LANCASTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wennington itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wennington, in Lancaster and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11021
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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