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Little Mitton, Lancashire

Historical Description

Mitton, Little, a township in Whalley parish, Lancashire, at the confluence of the rivers Hodder and Ribble, contiguous to Great Mitton township, 2½ miles SW of Clitheroe station on the L. & Y.R. Post town, Blackburn; money order and telegraph office, Whalley. The township includes the hamlets of Henthorn and Coldcoates. Acreage, 873; population, 95. The manor belongs to the Aspinall family. A cotton mill is at Henthorn. An inn adjoins the bridge which connects this place with Great Mitton, and is much frequented by anglers.

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 Little Mitton from the following:


Land and Property

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


Newspapers and Periodicals

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