Lancashire Archives and Libraries

Archives
Lancashire Archives Lancashire County Council PO Box 78 County Hall Fishergate Preston, Lancashire PR1 8XJ UK Telephone: 0300 123 6701 Email: enquiries@lancashire.gov.uk Website LANCAT Catalogue Church registers guide Guide to our holdings of Anglican, Roman Catholic and Nonconformist church registers and all copies and transcripts of these.

Manchester Archives and Local Studies 56 Marshall Street New Cross Manchester, Lancashire M4 5FU UK Telephone: 0161 832 5284 Fax: 0161 839 3808 Email: archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk Website Church registers search engine Church registers, alphabetical list

Liverpool Record Office 3rd Floor Central Library William Brown Street Liverpool, Lancashire L3 8EW UK Telephone: 0151 233 3069 Email: archives@liverpool.gov.uk@undefined Website Family history
 * Parish registers: Many of the parish registers can only be consulted on microfilm or online at the Ancestry database. For registers that have not been microfilmed or digitized, the original volumes can be viewed by appointment only in our search room.

For original historical documents relating to the area of Furness (Lancashire North of the Sands) and South West Cumberland, particularly for Barrow, Ulverston and Millom, once in Lancashire, now in Cumbria: Barrow Archive and Local Studies Centre Ramsden Square Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LA14 1LL UK Telephone: 01229 407 377 Email: barrow.archives@cumbria.gov.uk@undefined Website Cumbria Archive Service Catalogue

Libraries
Manchester Central Library - Archive Service (Manchester Archives) temporarily at Greater Manchester County Record Office during remodeling. Local Studies Unit St. Peter's Square Manchester, Lancashire M2 5PD UK Telephone: 0161 234 1979 Email: [mailto:libraries@manchester.gov.uk libraries@manchester.gov.uk] Website: Central Library

John Rylands University Library of Manchester 150 Deansgate Manchester, Lancashire M3 3EH UK Telephone: 0161 275 3764 Email: uml.special-collections@manchester.ac.uk@undefined Website: Rylands Library

Museums
For a long list of Lancashire museums, go to List of museums in Lancashire in Wikipedia.