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I've come across an ancestor living at Barrack St in Whittle-le-Woods (near Preston) in 1861. The street is gone now but I cannot spot the name on any old maps either. Whittle-le-Woods is not that big so it ought to be visible though I suspect some of the streets are not named on the maps - if the houses were back-to-backs there may not have been a road. The census includes Rip Row to the north of Whittle so it may have been that way.

So if any eagle-eyed reader can spot it somewhere, I'd be very grateful!

Do you have links to old street maps online that we can look at, saves having to search for them? Might have to take a trip to the library or archives office and look up the old maps they have there.


http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environmen ... p#lancmaps

I've used http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html, centred on 358160,421440 for Whittle-le-Woods. Also the Lancs Country Council Mario site has very good quality OS 1st edition 1:2500 maps at http://www.mario.lancashire.gov.uk/agsmario/default.aspx though it's not the easiest interface to use, you have to zoom right in before it will display the 1:2500 map and make sure you have it ticked in the historic information section.

There's a lot of houses in the census which are on "Rows" rather than Streets and I suspect there was only a path by the houses so probably wouldn't be named on the OS map. Barrack Street is named as a Street on some censuses though so it's maybe findable.