Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SABDEN

SABDEN, a village in Pendleton township, Whalley parish, Lancashire; under Spence-moor, 3¾ miles E N E of Whalley r. station, and 5¼ N W of Burnley. It has a post-office under Blackburn, the church of Heyhouses, chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, and a British school; carries on cotton-manufacture and calico printing; and has a pop. of about 1, 440.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Whalley Tn/AP/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Sabden

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