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Read, Lancashire

Historical Description

Read, a township and a parish in Lancashire, 3 miles E of Whalley railway station. There is a post and money order office under Blackburn; telegraph office, Padiham. Acreage, including part of Sabden, 1548; population, 1359. There is a parish council consisting of seven members and a chairman. The manor, with Read Hall, belongs to the Fort family. The church, dedicated to St John the Evangelist, was erected in 1885, and consists of chancel, nave, S porch, and bell-turret. There are cotton mills, a reading-room with library, and Liberal and Constitutional clubs.

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 unionBurnley 

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.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Read from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Read 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 districtBB12
Post TownBurnley

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