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Lower Booths, Lancashire

Historical Description

Booths, Lower, a township in Haslingden union, Lancashire, 1 mile ENE of Baxenden railway station, and 4 miles SSW of Burnley. Acreage, 1521; population, 6994. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in cotton factories, collieries, and quarries.

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 unionHaslingden 

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 Lower Booths 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: