Downham, Lancashire
Historical Description
Downham, a village, a township, and, with the adjoining township of Twiston, a parish in Lancashire. The township is on the boundary of Yorkshire, 1 mile E of Chatburn railway station, and 3 miles NE of Clitheroe, and has a post office under Clitheroe; money order and telegraph office, Chatburn. Acreage, 2300; population of township, 237; of the ecclesiastical iparish, 308. The manor, with Downham Hall, belongs to >the Asshetons. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £174: with residence. Patrons, Hulme's Trustees. The church is good, and there is a Wesleyan chapel. A school has £40 from endowment.
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 Downham from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Downham 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: