Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FOULRIDGE

FOULRIDGE, a township in Whalley parish, Lancashire; on the Leeds canal and the Colne and Skipton railway, 2 miles N of Colne. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Colne. Acres, 2, 450. Real property, £4, 498; of which £70 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 1, 233; in 1861, 988. Houses, 203. The decrease of pop. arose from the discontinuance of handloom weaving. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Foulridge CP/Tn       Whalley Tn/AP/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Foulridge

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