Bonds, Lancashire

infobox UK place
country = England
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latitude= 53.897
longitude=-02.771
official_name =Bonds
population =
shire_district= Wyre
shire_county= Lancashire
civil_parish=Barnacre-with-Bonds
region= North West England
constituency_westminster=
post_town= PRESTON
postcode_district= PR3
postcode_area=PR
dial_code=01995
os_grid_reference= SD4944

Bonds is a village in Lancashire, England. It lies immediately south of Garstang town centre, on the opposite bank of the River Wyre. It is bounded by the Lancaster Canal to the south and west. It would appear, from its location, to be a suburb of Garstang, but, in fact, it lies in the separate parish of Barnacre-with-Bonds. Garstang, Bonds, Bowgreave and Catterall form an almost continuous built-up area, bypassed by the A6 road in 1926. [Greenall, p.52]

The Catholic church of St Mary and St Michael is a Gothic building opened in 1858, superseding a chapel built in 1784. [Greenall, p.7] [Hewitson, p.53]

Half a mile east of the village are the ruins of Greenhalgh Castle, built in 1490 by Thomas Stanley. [Hewitson, pp.53–54]

Notes

References

* Greenall, R. (2007), "Garstang Past", At Heart Ltd, Altrincham, ISBN 978-1-84547-137-8
* Hewitson, A. (1900), "Northward", George Toulmin & Sons, Preston, republished in 2003 by Landy Publishing, Blackpool, ISBN 1 872895 60 3