Clitheroe, Lancashire Poor Law Union

Parishes of the Union
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
• 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 &amp; 1806-1811 -- v. 4. Overseers' book, 1811-1820 -- v. 5. Churchwardens' &amp; Overseers' accounts, 1765-1778. V. 1, Overseers' accounts, 1805-1811 FHL BRITISH Film 924238 Item 5 V. 5 Churchwardens' &amp; overseers' accounts, 1765-1778 FHL BRITISH Film 924146 Item 4

Websites
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/index.html?Clitheroe/Clitheroe.shtml