Hurst Green, Lancashire Family History Guide
Hurst Green is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1839 from Mitton Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Mitton St John the Evangelist, Chaigley, Bailey, Aighton, Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1871
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1843
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, and Roman Catholic.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HURST-GREEN, a village and a chapelry in Mitton parish, Lancashire.
The village stands near the river Ribble and near the boundary with Yorkshire, 3 miles NW by N of Langho r. station, and 6½ N of Blackburn; and has a post office under Blackburn. Stonyhurst College is in the neighbourhood.
The chapelry does not seem to have definite limits. Pop., about 1,500. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, not reported. Patrons, Five Trustees.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Clitheroe
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Craven
- Poor Law Union: Clitheroe
- Hundred: Blackburn
- Province: Canterbury