Worsthorne, Lancashire
Historical Description
Worsthorne, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Whalley parish, Lancashire. The township lies 2 miles E of Burnley railway station, and bears the name of Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood. It has a post and money order office under Burnley; telegraph office, Burnley. Acreage, 3510; population, 1069. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The Duke of Buccleuch is lord of the manor. Cotton manufacture is carried on, and there are quarries. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1835. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £199 with residence. Patrons, Hulme's Trustees. The church is Early English, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and bell-turret. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.
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 | Burnley |
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 Worsthorne from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Worsthorn)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Worsthorne 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: