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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.

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

Administration

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

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishWhalley 
HundredBlackburn 
Poor Law unionClitheroe 

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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

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

DistrictRibble Valley
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBB7
Post TownClitheroe

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