In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Newchurch in Rossendale like this:
NEWCHURCH-IN-ROSSENDALE, a village and a chapelry in Whalley parish, Lancashire. The village stands on an eminence, adjacent to the Manchester, Bury, and Bacup railway, 2½ miles W S W of Bacup; and has a station on the railway and a post-office‡ under Manchester, both of the name of Newchurch, and a fair on the last Monday of June. ...
The chapelry contains also the villages of Clough-Fold, Tunstead, Waterfoot, Booth-Fold, and Whitwell-Vale. Acres, 9, 650. Rated property, £33, 374. Pop., 24, 413. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch. Thistle-Mount, Springfield, Ashlands, Clough-fold, Edgeside, and Leabank, are chief residences. Coal, freestone, and slate abound; stone is quarried; and thecotton and woollen manufactures are largely carried on. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £500.* Patron, the Vicar of Whalley. The church was rebuilt in 1826, on the site of a previous church of1512; is in the Tudor style; consists of nave and aisles, with an embattled tower; has very old pews, and a carved Caen stone pulpit of 1854; and contains 1, 200 sittings. The rectory house was built in 1852; and is a handsome edifice, in the Tudor style. Two other churches are in Tunstead and Waterfoot; chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Unitarians, national schools, and an endowed grammar-school, are in Newchurch; a Baptist chapel is in Clough-Fold; and a mechanics' institution is in Whitwell-Vale The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1804, and contains nearly 500sittings. The Unitarian chapel was rebuilt in 1865, at a cost of £2, 200; and is in the pointed style. The grammar-school was built and endowed in 1711, by Mr. John Kershaw. The Baptist chapel in Clough-Folddates from 1700; had Dr. Isaac Watts, at one time, as itsminister; and was enlarged in 1838, and re-enlarged in 1853
Newchurch in Rossendale through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Newchurch in Rossendale, in Rossendale and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20380
Date accessed: 29th April 2024
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