User:Trappedinburnley/Whalley (ancient parish)
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Gazette Jan 3 1843 Gazette Sep 3 1845 Gazette Jul 15 1887 Handbook of Whalley
Whalley | |
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History | |
• Created | Early Middle Ages |
Status | Ecclesiastical parish |
• HQ | Church of St Mary and All Saints, Whalley |
Subdivisions | |
• Type | Townships |
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Whalley was an ancient English ecclesiastical parish based in the hundred of Blackburnshire, in Lancashire, but with detached sections extending into areas historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[1][2] At one time it contained 47 townships and extended over 430 square kilometres (105,000 acres).[3] Whalley was the second largest parish in England.[4]
It anciently included also the present parishes of Blackburn, Chipping, Mitton, Ribchester, Rochdale, and Slaidburn, which have been separated from it at different times.[5]