Clitheroe, Lancashire Poor Law Union
Parishes of the Union[edit | edit source]
The union included several Yorkshire parishes. Constituent parishes include:
Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley, Lancashire, Chatburn, Lancashire, Chipping, Lancashire, Clitheroe Clitheroe, Lancashire, Clitheroe St James, Lancashire Downham, Lancashire, Fence-in-Pendle, Lancashire Hurst Green, Lancashire, Little Bowland-with-Leagram, Lancashire, Mearley, Lancashire, Mitton, Lancashire , Newchurch in Pendle, Lancashire , Pendleton Hall, Lancashire, Thornley with Wheatley see Chipping, Lancashire, Twiston see Whalley, Lancashire, Whalley, Lancashire , Wiswell see Whalley, Lancashire, Worston see Whalley, Lancashire.
West Riding of Yorkshire: Bashall Eaves see [Great]Mitton Great Mitton, Yorkshire, Bolton-by-Bowland, Lancashire, Bowland Forest High, Lancashire, Bowland Forest Low, Lancashire, Easington, Gisburn, Yorkshire, Gisburn Forest (now a civil parish within the Ancient Parish), [Great] Mitton Great Mitton, Yorkshire, Grindleton, Yorkshire, Horton see Horton, Higher Paradise Congregational Chapel, Lancashire , Houghton, Yorkshire, Midhope [Middop], Newsholme, Newton, Paythorne, Rimington, Sawley, Slaidburn, Yorkshire , Waddington, Yorkshire, West Bradford, Lancashire , Whitewell, Lancashire.
Records[edit | edit source]
• Lancashire Record Office, Bow Lane, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 2RE. Holdings include: Guardians' minutes (1837-1902, 1905-30); Births (1867-1913); Deaths (1866-1914); Creed register (1914-34); Register of mechanical restraint (1901-48).
Churchwardens' and overseers' accounts, Downham, Lancashire, England Attributed to Bertram William Tuff Norman, compiler.Manuscript
Contents: Vol. 1. Overseers' book, 1805-1811 -- v. 2. Overseers' book, 1811-1816 -- v. 3. Overseers' book, 1816-1819 & 1806-1811 -- v. 4. Overseers' book, 1811-1820 -- v. 5. Churchwardens' & Overseers' accounts, 1765-1778.
V. 1, Overseers' accounts, 1805-1811 FS Library BRITISH Film 924238 Item 5
V. 5 Churchwardens' & overseers' accounts, 1765-1778 FS Library BRITISH Film 924146 Item 4
Bibliography
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• Keepers of the House by Frank Lofthouse (Hudson History, 2001)
Websites[edit | edit source]
For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Clitheroe/