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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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SLAIDBURN, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district of Clitheroe and W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Hodder, 9 miles N by W of Clitheroe r. station; and has a post-office under Clitheroe, a mechanics' institute, and fairs on the Wednesday before Easter and 4 Nov. The township comprises 5,617 acres. Real property, £4,042. Pop. in 1851, 708; in 1861, 579. Houses, 130. The manor belongs to Col. Townley.—The parish contains also three other townships. Pop. in 1851, 1,682; in 1861, 1,480. Houses, 292. The living is a rectory, with Dalehead chapelry, in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £550.* Patron, L. Wilkinson, Esq. The parochial church is early English, and the other church was built in 1852. There are an Independent chapel, a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £9 a year, a Quakers' school at which John Bright was educated, and charities £112.—The sub-district includes also another township, and comprises 40,321 acres. Pop., 1,799. Houses, 342.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Slaidburn AP/CP Slaidburn SubD Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Slaidburn |
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