Chatburn, Lancashire Family History Guide
Chatburn is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1843 from Whalley Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Worston.
Alternative names: Whalley Chatburn Christ Church
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1838
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1838
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Adjacent Parishes
- Newchurch in Pendle
- Downham
- Whalley
- Gisburn, Yorkshire
- Grindleton, Yorkshire
- Waddington, Yorkshire
- Clitheroe
Parish History
Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895
Chatburn, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Whalley parish, Lancashire.
The township lies on the verge of the county, on the river Ribble, at the terminus of the Blackburn and Clitheroe railway, 2 miles NE of Clitheroe.
The ecclesiastical parish includes also the township of Worston, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Clitheroe. Acreage of the township, 894; population, 831; of the ecclesiastical parish, 901. Cotton manufacture and lime-burning, on an extensive scale, are carried on.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £228 with residence. Patrons, Hulme’s Trustees. The church was struck by lightning in 1854, and the steeple had to be taken down and rebuilt, and in 1883 it was entirely rebuilt with the exception of the tower.
The village is supplied with water from Pendle Hill.
There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CHATBURN, a district chapelry and a township, in the parish of Whalley, union of Clitheroe, Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 2¼ miles (N. E. by E.) from Clitheroe; the township containing 500 inhabitants.
This township is situated on the river Ribble, at the base of Pendle hill, and on the road from Clitheroe to Skipton. It comprises 923a. 3r. 39p., whereof about 100 acres are arable, 740 meadow and pasture, 20 woodland, 40 acres buildings and roads, and 25 covered by water; the surface is irregular, the soil good, resting upon limestone, and the scenery picturesque, with fine views of the castle of Clitheroe and the vale of the Ribble: two quarries of limestone are in operation.
The Chatburn brook issues from the wild fissures of Pendle hill, and increases the Ribble below the village. The line of the Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North-Western railway, passes here.
The chapelry includes the township of Worston: the living is a perpetual curacy, with a net income of £160, and is in the patronage of Hulme’s Trustees; incumbent, the Rev. Robert Ingram. The tithes have been purchased by the landowners. The chapel, consecrated in 1838, is in the Romanesque style, and is a neat structure with a spire, it was erected at a cost of £1622, of which the Incorporated Society gave £250: of 364 sittings, 189 are free.
A national school is supported by subscription. The limestone abounds in fossils.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Clitheroe
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Manchester
- Rural Deanery: Whalley
- Poor Law Union: Clitheroe
- Hundred: Blackburn
- Province: York