Catterall (Lancashire)
Coordinates: 53 ° 53 ′ N , 2 ° 45 ′ W
Catterall is a place and a civil parish in Lancashire , England .
Catterall is mentioned as Catrehala in the Domesday Book . The meaning or origin of the name is unclear, but it suggests a cat, is an unconfirmed claim.
The rivers Wyre , Calder and Brock flow through the Civil parish and partially form its border. The River Calder flows into the Wyre at Catterall.
Until 1891, water from the Calder operated printing works and leather industry in Catterall, but then the local water supplier - the Fylde Water Company - received permission by a resolution of the Parliament to take water from the upper reaches of the Calder for drinking water supply. As a result, there was no longer enough water available for the machines and the factories had to close.
The Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway opened Garstang and Catterall station in Catterall in 1840 . Of the now closed station, which later was on the West Coast Main Line , only the station master's house remains today.
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- Ron Greenall, Some aspects of the history and development of Catterall on the Civil parish website.