A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
LUMB, a chapelry in Whalley parish, Lancashire; adjacent to Yorkshire, at the top of Whitewell vale, numder the Cliviger hills, 2 miles N of Newchurch r. station, and 5 S of Burnley. It contains the village of Water; and it was constituted in 1846. Post town, Newchurch, under Manchester. Pop., 2,647. Houses, 518. The property is subdivided. There are cotton and woollen factories, and stone quarries. The living is a Vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is in the early Norman style; consists of nave, transepts, and chancel, with a small turretted tower; and was repaired in 1857. There are a Wesleyan chapel of 1861, and Church of England, Baptist, and British schools.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Whalley Tn/AP/CP Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Lumb |
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