Wiswell or Wiswall, Lancashire
Historical Description
Wiswell or Wiswall, a township, with a village, in Whalley parish, Lancashire, 3 miles S of Clitheroe, and 1 mile from Whalley station on the L. & Y.R. Post town, Blackburn; money order and telegraph office, Whalley. The township comprises Barrow Bridge. Acreage, 1693; population, 728. There are calico-printing works. The manor belongs to the Longworth family. There is a Congregational chapel.
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 Wiswell or Wiswall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wiswell, or Wiswall)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wiswell or Wiswall 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: