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Whalley in York County England History and GeographyWHALLEY, a parish comprising the borough and market town of Clitheroe, the market towns of Burnley and Colne, the chapelries of Old Accrington, Altham, Bacup, Cliviger, Downham, Goldshaw-Booth, Great Marsden, New-Church with Deadwin-Clough, Padiham, and Pendleton, and the townships of New Accrington, Barley with Whitley-Booths, Barrowford, Higher Booths, Lower Booths, Brierscliffe with Extwistle, Chatburn, Dunnockshaw, Foulridge, Habergham-Eaves, Hapton, Heyhouses, Higham-Booth, Reedly-Hallows with Filly-Close and New Laund-Booth, Huncoat, Ightenhill Park, Little Marsden, Mearley, Little Mitton, Read, Rough-Lee-Booth, Simonstone, Trawden-Forest, Twiston, Whalley, Wheatley-Carr, Wiswell, Worsthorn, Worston, and Yate with Pick-up-Bank, in the higher division of the hundred of BLACKBURN, and the market town of Haslingden, the chapelry of Church-Town, and the townships of Bowland with Leagram, Clayton le Moors, and Oswaldtwistle, in the lower division of the hundred of BLACKBURN, county palatine of LANCASTER; the township of Willington, in the second division of the hundred of EDDISBURY, county palatine of CHESTER; and the chapelry of Whitewell, in the western division of the wapentake of STAINCLIFFE and EWCROSS, West riding of the county of YORK; and containing 84,198 inhabitants, of which number, 1058 are in the township of Whalley, 4 miles (S. by W.) from Clitheroe. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's books at £6. 3. 9., endowed with £200 private benefaction, £300 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a large structure, principally in the early English style, of which the chancel is a very fine specimen: the interior contains eighteen ancient stalls, and some considerable remains of good screen-work, brought from the old abbey. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. This parish is about thirty miles in length by fifteen in breadth, though but little more than half its ancient extent, which included also the present parishes of Blackburn, Chipping, Mitton, Ribchester, Rochdale, and Slaidburn, which have been separated from it at different times. The rivers Calder and Ribble form a junction at the western extremity of the parish. The village is chiefly celebrated for the venerable ruins of its abbey, which exhibit portions in the early, decorated, and later, styles of English architecture: they are still considerable, and possess much interest. This house was founded, in 1296, by Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for monks of the Cistercian order, whose revenue, at the dissolution, was estimated at £551. 4. 6. Here are manufactures of cotton, rope, and nails. The free grammar school, founded by Queen Elizabeth, was rebuilt by subscription, in 1725, with a dwelling-house for the master, who receives an annuity of £12. 8. 2. from the crown rents, and another of £4. 14. arising from the bequests of John Chewe and Sir Edmund Assheton: it is open for the classical instruction of all boys of the township, but there are only twelve at present upon the foundation: this school, in conjunction with those of Burnley and Middleton, has an interest in thirteen scholarships, founded in Brasenose College, Oxford, by Dr. Nowell, in 1572. A National school was erected by subscription in 1819. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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