Lathom, Lancashire

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Lathom is a hamlet in Lancashire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Lathom within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Lathom in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Lathom, township and local government district, Ormskirk par., N. Lancashire, on river Donglas and Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 4 miles NE. of Ormskirk, 8694 ac., pop. 4161. Lathom House, seat of Lord Skelmersdale, occupies the site of the ancient house of Lathom, defended by the Countess of Derby against the Parliamentary forces.

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Scarth Hill (or LATHOM): which see.

Lathom in the Domesday Book

A village in [West] Derby hundred, in the county of Cheshire.

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