Brierfield, Lancashire
Historical Description
Brierfield, a township and an ecclesiastical district in the ancient parish of Whalley, 2½ miles from Burnley, Lancashire, with a station on the L. & Y.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Burnley. Area of the urban sanitary district, 1051 acres; population, 5888; of the ecclesiastical district, 6060. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £256 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester. The church is a building in the Gothic style, and was erected in 1872. There are four dissenting chapels. Brierfield is governed by a local board, and the inhabitants are chiefly employed in cotton manufacture.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Brierfield 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: