Lower Darwen, Lancashire
Historical Description
Darwen, Lower, a large and populous manufacturing township and a chapelry in Blackburn parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the river Darwen and on the Blackburn and Bolton railway, 2 miles S by E of Blackburn, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Darwen, and a railway station. The greater part is in the county borough of Blackburn. Acreage, 2667; population, 5573. There are cotton mills, extensive paper works, and some other manufactories. The chapelry was constituted in 1829. Population, 1783. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £362 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. The church was built in 1826-29 at a cost of £5500. There are Congregational and Free Methodist chapels.
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 | Blackburn | |
Hundred | Blackburn | |
Poor Law union | Blackburn |
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 Darwen from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Darwen, Lower)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Lower Darwen 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: