Baxenden, Lancashire
Historical Description
Baxenden, a large straggling village in the borough of Accrington, Lancashire, on the L. & Y.R., 1½ mile W of Haslingden. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Accrington, a railway station, two cotton mills, dye-works, a colliery, and a small print work. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £300 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop. There is a Wes-leyan chapel. The Duke of Buccleuch is lord of the manor. It was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1878; population, 1632.
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 Baxenden 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: