Great Harwood Directories

DIRECTORIES
mentioning Great Harwood

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Gazetteer and Directory of Hundreds Extracted from Baines Lancashire Directory 1824/5
Hundred of Blackburn – Gazetteer - Blackburn Hundred/ Blackburn Parish - Pages 630/1

Pigots Directory 1828:
Whalley, Great Harwood & Neighbourhoods

Whalley is a village and township, in an extensive and exceedingly populous parish of the same name, in the hundred and deanery of Blackburn, and in the archdeaconry of Chester; the village being situated about four miles south of Clitheroe, and is chiefly celebrated for its Cistercian abbey, the ruins of which are amongst the most interesting remains of the country. The parish church, a very ancient foundation, dedicated to All Saints, is a vicarage, in the presentation of the archbishop of Canterbury, and incumbency of the Rev. Richard Noble. Here is one Methodist chapel, a free grammar school, founded by Queen Elizabeth, and a national school, built by subscription in 1819. The manufactures carried on in the village are not extensive, and the trade attached to it is chiefly of a local nature. The parish of Whalley contains one borough and forty-eight townships, including thirteen chapelries, four of which are market towns. In 1801 it contained a population of 49,175 persons, and in 1821, 84,934, of the number only 1,058 were inhabitants of the township.

Great Harwood, a chapelry, in the parish of Blackburn, four miles and a half north-east of that town, is a very ancient manor, given in the 12 th century to Richard de Felton, and afterwards devolved in marriage to the Heskeths, the Leighs, and the Nowells. The chapel of ease here was founded in the 14 th century; the present minister is the Rev. Robert Dobson. The manufacture of cotton has made its appearance here, at present, however, it is but circumscribed in its operation. The population of the chapelry, in 1821, consisted of 2104 persons.

Nobility, Gentry and Clergy

Dobson, Rev, Robt. A M

Inns, Taverns and Public Houses

Britannia, Edwd. Noble

Dog and Otter, Richard Loynd

Game Cock, Jno. Hitchen

Lomax Arms, William Calvert

Queen’s Head, Roger Pilkington

Shopkeepers and Traders

Brown, Rd. shoemaker

Brunton, Jas, shopkeeper

Catrall, Lawrence, shopkeeper

Fielden, Jas. cotton mfctr.

Howarth, Hen. blacksmith

Marshall, Thos. tanner

Mercer, Ewd. clogger

Noble, Mark, stone mason

Royston, Ann shopkeeper

Sale, Edw., shopkeeper

Smalley, James cooper and joiner

Smalley, Jno. joiner

Smith, Henry, cotton manufacturer

Taylor, Jas. joiner

(The Introduction is complete for clarity, however only Great Harwood entries are included from the directory. All spellings are as given in the original. Felton, should, of course, read ‘Fitton’.)

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