Bulk is an area of Lancaster, Lancashire, England.[1] It was formerly a township and a civil parish. The placename Bulke was recorded in 1346. The manor of Neuton was recorded in this area in the Domesday Book but by 1318 Newton was described as a hamlet within Bulk.[2]

The civil parish of Bulk was in Lancaster Rural District until 1900 when most of it (179 houses) was incorporated into the Municipal Borough of Lancaster, with 9 houses going into the civil parish of Quernmore.[3]

The population of the civil parish of Bulk was 116 in 1871, 117 in 1881, and 671 in 1891.[4]

Bulk lies north of the city centre of Lancaster, and on the same side, the east, of the River Lune. The parish extended along the river to a point south of Halton on the other bank, the boundary then turning south and curving round towards Lancaster.

There was a church mission room in Bulk by 1914.[2] The mission's World War I war memorial has been relocated to the redundant St John's Church in Lancaster, and carries the names of 33 men from Bulk district, 30 of whom survived.[5] The 11th Lancaster Scout group was based at the mission in the 1940s.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Bulk, Lancaster (LA1 1DN)". OS GetOutside. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Townships: Bulk". A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8. Victoria County History. 1914. pp. 49–50. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  3. ↑ "Bulk RD: Relationships and changes". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  4. ↑ "Bulk RD: Total Population". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Vision of Britain. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  5. ↑ "Bulk Mission". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  6. ↑ "Groups in the Lancaster District". Lonsdale Scouts. Retrieved 15 May 2020.

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