Holme in Cliviger, Lancashire
Historical Description
Holme-in-Cliviger, a village and an ecclesiastical parish formed from Whalley parish, Lancashire, with a station on the L. & Y.R., near the sources of the rivers Irwell and East and West Calder, at the E verge of the county, 4 miles SE by S of Burnley. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Burnley. The parish, conterminate with the township of Clivi-ger, was constituted in 1842. Population, 2121. The Duke of Buccleuch is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £150. The church was rebuilt in 1788, contains tablets of the Whitaker, Har-greaves, Ormerod, and Edmondson families, and has a vault of the Whitakers, in which lie the remains of the Lancashire historian, Dr Whitaker. There are Wesleyan chapels at Mereelough and Cornholme. The Cornholrne Wesleyan chapel is an edifice in the Pointed style, built in 1853.
Church Records
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Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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