Higher Booths
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BOOTHS (Higher), a township in Whalley parish, Lancashire; on the Manchester and Accrington railway, near the Baxenden station, 5 miles SSW of Burnley. Acres, 2,000. Real property, £21,097; of which £6,189 are in mines. Pop., 5,131. Houses, 968. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in cotton factories and in collieries.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
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Census
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Church Records
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Civil Registration
The Register Office covering the Higher Booths area is Hyndburn and Rossendale.Gazetteers
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In 1835 Higher Booths was a township in the parish of Whalley.Information about boundaries and administrative areas is available from A Vision of Britain through time.