Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PENDLETON

PENDLETON, a township in Whalley parish, Lancashire; under Pendle hill, 2½ miles S S E of Clitheroe r.station. Acres, 2, 800. Real property, £4, 585. Pop.in 1851, 1, 308; in 1861, 1, 446. Houses, 298. The bulk of the population is at Sabden-Bridge. Standen Hallis the seat of J. T. W. Aspinall, Esq. There are a chapel of ease, an Independent chapel, and a national school.


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

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

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