Sabden, Lancashire
Historical Description
Sabden, a large village in Pendleton township, Whalley parish, Lancashire, under Spence Moor, 3 miles ENE of Whalley station on the L. & Y.R, and 5½ NW of Burnley. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Blackburn, the church of Heyhouses, Baptist, Wesleyan, and Roman Catholic chapels, and carries on cotton manufacture and calico printing. The Duke of Buccleuch is lord of the manor.
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 | Clitheroe |
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 Sabden from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sabden 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: