A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Whalley, township and vil. with ry. sta., NE. Lancashire, and par., partly also in N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire - par. (containing the towns of Accrington, Bacup. Burnley, Clitheroe, Colne, Haslingden, Nelson, &c.), 115,382 ac., pop. 244,395; township, 1603 ac., pop. 895; vil., 3½ miles S. of Clitheroe and 7½ NE. of Blackburn by rail; P.O., T.O. A Cistercian abbey was founded here in 1296, and its ruins attest the splendour of its architecture. Whalley church is a venerable structure rebuilt in 1100, having been founded in 628. The parish is the largest in Lancashire, and one of the largest in England; it consists of 49 townships (including 1 in Yorkshire), and is ecclesiastically divided into 43 entire districts and 10 parts.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "township and village with railway station" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Whalley Tn/AP/CP Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Whalley |
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