Static Image Name: | Loyn Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 981131.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Loyn Bridge |
Official Name: | Gressingham |
Population: | 151 |
Population Ref: | (2011) |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 54.123°N -2.656°W |
Civil Parish: | Gressingham |
Shire District: | Lancaster |
Shire County: | Lancashire |
Region: | North West England |
Post Town: | LANCASTER |
Postcode Area: | LA |
Postcode District: | LA2 |
Dial Code: | 01524 |
Constituency Westminster: | Morecambe and Lunesdale |
Os Grid Reference: | SD571699 |
Pushpin Map: | United Kingdom City of Lancaster#United Kingdom Forest of Bowland |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the City of Lancaster district##Location in the Forest of Bowland AONB |
Label Position: | bottom |
Gressingham is a small village and civil parish in the City of Lancaster In the 2001 census, it had a population of 153,[1] decreasing slightly to 151 at the 2011 census.
St John the Evangelist's Church was originally built in the 12th century. It was partly rebuilt in 1734, and restored by Edward Paley in 1862.
John Young Stratton (1829/30 – 1905): author, essayist, social reformer and campaigner against rural poverty.
In 1903, the cost of the new 35-foot Liverpool-class lifeboat at Skerries Lifeboat Station in County Dublin, was met by a legacy gift from the Rev. W. S. Maynard of Gressingham, and named William Maynard (ON 493).[2]