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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictHyndburn
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBB5
Post TownAccrington

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