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.
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 | Burnley |
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:
- 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: