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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"TRAWDEN, a township in the parish of Whalley, higher division of Blackburn hundred, county Lancaster, 2 miles S.E. of Colne, and 6 from Burnley, its post town. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in manufactures similar to those carried on in the neighbouring towns and villages. The township includes the hamlet of Winewall, and was once forest. The soil consists of clay and rock, but the greater part is now under cultivation. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £150, in the patronage of the crown and bishop alternately. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a National school for both sexes, at which a Sunday-school is also held. The Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Inghamites have chapels. The Duke of Buccleuch is lord of the manor."