Lumb, Lancashire
Historical Description
Lumb, an ecclesiastical parish formed from Whalley parish, Lancashire, adjacent to Yorkshire, at the top of Whithwell Vale, under the Cliviger Hills, 2 miles N of Waterfoot railway station, and 5 S of Burnley. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester; contains the village of Water, and the hamlets of Dean and Whitewell Bottom; and was constituted in 1846. Population, 2721. There are cotton and woollen factories, and stone quarries. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, —£190 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church, which was built in 1848, is in the Early Norman style; consists of nave, transepts, and chancel, with a small turreted tower; and contains several memorial windows. There are Wesleyan, Baptist, 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 | Whalley | |
| Hundred | Blackburn | |
| Poor Law union | Haslingden |
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 Lumb from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Lumb 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: