Accrington

"ACCRINGTON, a chapelry, post-town, and considerable village in the parish of Whalley, and hundred of Blackburn, in the county palatine of Lancaster, 4 miles N.W. of Haslingden. It includes the two townships of Old and New Accrington, and has become within the last few years a place of some consequence. The population has increased at a very rapid rate. It is situated on the river Henburn, near the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and is a station on the East Lancashire railway. Its importance is derived from its position in the centre of the calico-printing trade. Several large cotton-mills and print-works have been established, which afford abundant occupation to the working classes. Many hands are employed in the coal-mines and quarries. The living of Old Accrington is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £300, in the patronage of Hulme's Trustees. The church was taken down and rebuilt in 1826. The living of Christ Church is a curacy, in the patronage of trustees. There is a national school which was erected in 1806."