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.
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 | Blackburn | |
Poor Law union | 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.
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:
- 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: