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HARWOOD (GREAT), a town, a township-chapelry, and a sub-district in Blackburn parish and district, Lancashire. The town stands near the Leeds and Liverpool canal, 1½ mile SW of the river Calder, 2¼ SE of Ribchester r. station, and 4½ NE of Blackburn; is a rising place, well built of native stone; nearly doubled its population in the ten years prior to 1865; is governed by a local board of health; and has a post office under Accrington, a news-room, cotton mills, a national school, a church, and chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Roman Catholics. The church is ancient, and has a west tower. The Roman Catholic chapel is a handsome edifice of 1860. Pop., in 1861, 3,294. Houses, 637. The chapelry comprises 2,510 acres. Real property, £9,521; of which £75 are in gasworks, and £85 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 2,548; in 1861, 4,070. Houses, 782. The manor belongs to James Lomax, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £200. * Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. The sub-district contains also two other townships of Blackburn parish, and one of Whalley. Acres, 6,950. Pop., 10,220. Houses, 1,952.

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

Archives and libraries

Cemeteries

• Blackburn Rd, Cemetery

• St Bartholomew (originally St Laurence), Park Lane, Church of England

• Our Lady and St Hubert, St Hubert Street, Roman Catholic

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• James Barlow Memorial, Charles St, Baptist

• St Bartholomew (originally St Laurence), Park Lane, Church of England
• St John, St John's St, Church of England

• Queen St, Congregational

• Emmanuel, Segar St, Free Church of England

• Jubilee School, Windsor Rd, Methodist

• Town Gate Pentecostal, Town Hall Street, Pentecostal

• Orchard St, Primitive Methodist
• Jubilee chapel, Mercer St, Primitive Methodist

• Our Lady and St Hubert, St Hubert Street, Roman Catholic
• St Wulstan, Rushton Street, Roman Catholic

• Clayton St, Spiritualist

• Mount Zion, Cattle St, United Methodist

• Barnmeadow Lane, United Reformed

• Russell Place, Wesleyan Methodist
• Windsor Rd, Wesleyan Methodist
• Mount Zion, Commercial St, Wesleyan Methodist

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The Great Harwood site has information about each of the local churches.

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A map of Great Harwood around 1890.

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