Haslingden
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HASLINGDEN, a town, a township-chapelry, a subdistrict, and a district in Lancashire. The town stands adjacent to the East Lancashire railway, near Rossendale forest, 4 miles S by E of Accrington, and 16 N by W of Manchester. The chief employments are in cotton factories, sheeting and fulling mills, iron foundries, size works, a brewery, and stone quarries. Several mansions and handsome villas are in the neighbourhood. Pop. of the town, in 1851, 6,154; in 1861, 6,929. Houses, 1,295. The chapelry is in Whalley parish, and comprises 4,420 acres. Real property, £25,479; of which £575 are in gas works, and £1,007 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 9,030; in 1861, 10,109. Houses, 1,935. The manor belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch. The landed property is chiefly divided among five. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £300. * Patrons, Hulme's Trustees. The sub-district contains also the township of Henheads. Acres, 4,780. Pop., 10,320. Houses, 1,975.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) more ...
Archives and libraries
Haslingden Library,Higher Deardengate,
Haslingden
Rossendale
BB4 5LQ
Tel: 01706 215690
Cemeteries
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Haslingden.Church History
Church Records
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Civil Registration
The Register Office covering the Haslingden area is Hyndburn and Rossendale.Directories
David Greenhalgh has extracted entries from Pigot's 1828 Directory.Gazetteers
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In 1835 Haslingden was a chapelry and township in the parish of Whalley.Information about boundaries and administrative areas is available from A Vision of Britain through time.
Maps
View maps of Haslingden and places within its boundaries.A map of Haslingden around 1890.
