Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Mellor

Mellor, eccl. dist. and township, Blackburn par., NE. Lancashire, 2½ miles NW. of Blackburn - dist., pop. 1336; township, 1744 ac., pop. 1096; P.O., T.O., at Mellor Brook; Mellor Moor has traces of a Roman camp.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ecclesiastical district and township"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Mellor CP/Tn       Lancashire AncC
Place: Mellor

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