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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Whalley | |
Hundred | Blackburn | |
Poor Law union | Burnley |
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:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: