Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HURST-GREEN

HURST-GREEN, a village and a chapelry in Mitton parish, Lancashire. The village stands near the river Ribble and near the boundary with Yorkshire, 3 miles NW by N of Langho r. station, and 6½ N of Blackburn; and has a post office under Blackburn. Stonyhurst College is in the neighbourhood.—The chapelry does not seem to have definite limits. Pop., about 1, 500. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, not reported.* Patrons, Five Trustees.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Mitton AP/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Hurst Green

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