Brindle, Lancashire

Historical Description

Brindle, a village, a township, and a parish in Lancashire. The parish lies on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and on the L.&Y.R., 2 miles from Hoghton station, 5 N by E of Chorley, under which it has a post office; money order office, Whittle-le-Woods; telegraph office, Gregson Lane. Area of civil parish, 3104 acres; population, 1106. The manor belongs to Lord Chesham. There are chemical works, a cotton factory, and quarries. The living is a discharged rectory in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £390 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church is good and there are a Roman Catholic chapel and some charities.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Registers of Brindle 1558-1714, are available to browse online.

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Brindle from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brindle (St. James))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Brindle 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:

• Blackburn Standard
• Burnley Express
• Lancashire Evening Post
• Lancaster Gazette
• Burnley Gazette
• Preston Chronicle
• Burnley Advertiser
• Burnley News