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Huncoat, Lancashire

Historical Description

Huncoat, a village and a township in Church Kirk parish; Lancashire. The village stands on a rising ground, adjacent to the L. & Y.R., 1½ mile NE by E of Accrington, and has a station on the railway. There is a post and money order office under Accrington; telegraph office, Accrington. The township comprises 990 acres; population, 956. The Duke of Bncclench is lord of the manor. The Accrington Cemetery and the reservoir of the Accrington Waterworks are in or on the borders of this township. The church is a building in the Early English style, erected in 1886 as a chapel of ease to Church or Church Kirk. There are also Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.

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 
HundredBurnley 

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 Huncoat from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Huncoat 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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