A Comprehensive List of Whalley Chapelries

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Whalley St Mary's Parish is one of the larger ancient parishes in Lancashire. It has considerable number of townships lying within its boundary--most of which have one or more chapels (over 40 of them) attached to them. To be thorough, a search of "Whalley ancient parish requires a search in all of its attached chapels of ease (see the list below).

Places in Whalley St Mary's Parish include: Wheatley Booth, Twiston, Wheatley Carr Booth, Wheatley Lane, Wiswell, Wolfendenen-in-Newchurch, Worston, Wycoller, Barley, Barley with Wheatley Booth, Blacko, Booth Rough-lee, Booth Laund Old, Bowland, Bowland Forest Low, Coldcoats, Constable, Crawshaw Booth, Dunnockshaw, Dunnockshaw Close, Elfenden, Entwistle, Foulridge, Gambleside, Great Mearley, Hapton, Henthorn, Higham with West Close Booth, Higher Booths, Laund Booth, Little Bowland and Leagram, Little Mearley, Little Mitton, Henthorn and Coldcoats, Love Clough, Lower Booths, Mearley, Monkride and Barnside, Monkroyd and Barnside, Oakenheadwood, Old Accrington, Oswaldtwistle, Read, Standen and Standen Hey, Tunstead, and Wheatley Carr.

The following list provides the names of all of those chapelries lying within the boundaries of the Parish of Whalley St Mary's, Lancashire; each of which possess registers of baptisms, sometimes marriages and often had churchyards with burial registers as well, each if which--see:


 * - 1766
 * - 1840
 * - 1868
 * - 1596
 * - 1788
 * Bacup St Saviour
 * Booth Old Laund - see Fence-in-Pendle
 * - 1841
 * - 1562
 * Burnley St Andrew - 1868
 * - 1845
 * - 1846
 * - 1879
 * - 1838
 * - 1600
 * - 1840
 * - 1570
 * - 1839
 * Clitheroe Castle Chapel - 1683
 * - 1599
 * - 1839
 * - 1606
 * - 1837
 * - 1749
 * - 1845
 * - 1837
 * - 1598
 * - 1841
 * - 1725
 * St Michaels -1846
 * - 1725
 * - 1848
 * Reedley Hallows, Filly Close and New Laund Booth
 * - 1574
 * St Nicholas - 1606
 * - 1817
 * - 1836
 * -1846
 * - 1573
 * - 1838
 * - 1840 (partly also in Rochdale Parish)
 * - 1844
 * - 1848

For determining additional district chapels created after 1855, see John M. Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England &amp; Wales (1870) at www.visionofBritain.org.uk.