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 it--most with smaller chapels (about 40 of them) attached to them.

The following list provides the names of all of those chapelries lying within the boundaries of the Parish of Whalley St Mary's, Lancashire:


 * - 1766
 * - 1840
 * - 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.