Fence in Pendle, Lancashire Family History Guide

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Fence in Pendle is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1841 from Whalley Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Wheatley Lane, Wheatley Carr Booth, and Old Laund Booth.

Alternative names: Fence

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1837
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1837

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FENCE-IN-PENDLE, a chapelry in Whalley parish, Lancashire; on the E border of the county, 3 miles N of Burnley r. station. It has a post office, of the name of Fence, under Burnley. It was constituted in 1845. Pop., 1,331. Houses, 257. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, not reported. Patron, W. Holden, Esq. The church is good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Use for:
England, Lancashire, Fence

England, Lancashire, Fence-in-Pendle – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Fence St. Anne’s Church memorial inscriptions
Author: Holgate, Christine (Christine Mary); Frankland, Pat; Rossendale Society for Genealogy and Heraldry (Lancashire)

England, Lancashire, Fence-in-Pendle – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Downham, 1606-1886
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Downham (Lancashire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Fence-in-Pendle, 1871-1874
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Fence-in-Pendle (Lancashire)

Parish registers for Fence-in-Pendle, 1837-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Fence-in-Pendle (Lancashire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Lancashire
  • Civil Registration District: Burnley
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Manchester
  • Rural Deanery: Whalley
  • Poor Law Union: Clitheroe
  • Hundred: Blackburn
  • Province: York