Barley with Wheatley Booth, Lancashire
Historical Description
Barley-with-Wheatley-Booth, a township and a village in Newchurch-in-Pendle ecclesiastical parish, Lancashire, 3½ miles from Brierfield station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. Acreage, 2625; population, 303. There is a Wesleyan and a Primitive Methodist chapel.
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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Barley with Wheatley Booth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barley, with Whitley-Booths)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Barley with Wheatley Booth 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: