Lower Darwen
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DARWEN (Lower), a township and a chapelry in Blackburn parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the Blackburn and Bolton railway, 2 miles S by E of Blackburn; and has a post office under Blackburn, and a r. station. Acres, 2, 490. Real property, £10,322. Pop., 3,301. Houses, 623. There are cotton-mills, extensive paper-works, and some other manufactories. The chapelry was constituted in 1842. Pop. 2,081. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Manchester. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. The church was built in 1830, at a cost of £5,491. There are a Wesleyan chapel and three public schools.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Darwen library.Cemeteries
- St James, Stopes Brow, Church of England
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Lower Darwen.Church History
Church Records
- St Bartholomew, Bolton Road, Church of England, Ewood
- St Bartholomew, Jack Walker Way, Church of England, Ewood
- St James, Stopes Brow, Church of England
- Sandy Lane, Congregational
- Manxman Rd, Methodist, Higher Croft
- Fore St, United Methodist Free Church
- Kidder St, Wesleyan Methodist, Ewood
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Civil Registration
The Register Office covering the Lower Darwen area is Blackburn.Gazetteers
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In 1835 Lower Darwen was a township in the parish of Blackburn.Information about boundaries and administrative areas is available from A Vision of Britain through time.