Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BAXENDEN

BAXENDEN, a large village in Whalley parish, Lancashire; on the East Lancashire railway, 1¼. mile N of Haslingden. It has a post office under Accrington, a r. station, two cotton mills, and a colliery.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a large village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Whalley Tn/AP/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Baxenden

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