Foulridge
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FOULRIDGE, a township in Whalley parish, Lancashire; on the Leeds canal and the Colne and Skipton railway, 2 miles N of Colne. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Colne. Acres, 2,450. Real property, £4,498; of which £70 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 1,233; in 1861, 988. Houses, 203. The decrease of pop. arose from the discontinuance of handloom weaving. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
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Census
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Civil Registration
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Transcript of the entry of professions and trades. for FOULRIDGE in The Craven Household Almanack Directory of 1911.Description and Travel
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In 1835 Foulridge was a township in the parish of Whalley.Information about boundaries and administrative areas is available from A Vision of Britain through time.