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Altham, Lancashire

Historical Description

Altham, a township in Whalley parish, Lancashire, on the Calder river, near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 1 mile N of Huncoat railway station, and 5 W of Burnley. It includes the village of Sykeside, and its post town is Accrington. Acreage, 1440; population, 427. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; value, £180. The church was almost entirely rebuilt in 1859. There are large brick works, collieries, and stone quarries.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishWhalley 
HundredBlackburn 
Poor Law unionBurnley 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Altham from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Altham are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictHyndburn
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBB5
Post TownAccrington

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