Whitewell, Lancashire
Historical Description
Whitewell, an ecclesiastical parish in Whalley parish, Lancashire and W.R. Yorkshire, 7 miles NW by W of Clitheroe station on the L. & Y.R. Post town, Clitheroe; money order and telegraph office, Dunsop Bridge. Population, 429. Brows-holme Hall is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £236 with residence. Patrons, Hulme's Trustees. The church, built in 1818, is in the Gothic style, and consists of nave and turret.
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 Whitewell 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: