Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FENCE-IN-PENDLE

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.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Whalley Tn/AP/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Fence

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