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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.

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

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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

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

DistrictPendle
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBB9
Post TownNelson

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