c. 1720, Gastrell noted that Shireshead and Ellel were served by the same Curate, who 'in Summer preaches at both Chappells, ev[ery] Sunday, and in Winter, ev[ery] other Sunday at each.' Shireshead 'was in the hands of the Dissenters for some time, but recoveered from them by [the] d[uke] of Hamilton, and Mr Richmond, then Vicar of garstang, as Mr Richmond informed me, an[no] 1720'. Gastrell, Notitia Cestrienses, II.ii, 407.