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Lower Darwen, Lancashire

Historical Description

Darwen, Lower, a large and populous manufacturing township and a chapelry in Blackburn parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the river Darwen and on the Blackburn and Bolton railway, 2 miles S by E of Blackburn, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Darwen, and a railway station. The greater part is in the county borough of Blackburn. Acreage, 2667; population, 5573. There are cotton mills, extensive paper works, and some other manufactories. The chapelry was constituted in 1829. Population, 1783. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £362 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. The church was built in 1826-29 at a cost of £5500. There are Congregational and Free Methodist chapels.

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 parishBlackburn 
HundredBlackburn 
Poor Law unionBlackburn 

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 Lower Darwen from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Lower Darwen 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:

CountyBlackburn with Darwen
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBB3
Post TownDarwen

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