Comprehensive List of Whalley Chapelries, Parishes beginning with We-Z

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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 39 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. When researching Whalley Parish and an ancestor cannot be found, then due consideration must be given also to all of the following township chapelries and their separate church registers that lie within Whalley's civil parish boundaries (also see Burnley's "A Comprehensive List of Burnely's Chapelries"):


 * Accrington St James - 1766
 * Accrington Christchurch - 1840
 * Altham - 1596
 * Bacop St. John's - 1788
 * Bacup St Saviour
 * Briercliffe - 1841
 * Burnley St Peter - 1562
 * Burnley St Andrew - 1782
 * Burnley St James - 1845
 * Burnley St Paul - 1846
 * Chatburn - 1838
 * Church-Kirk or Church - 1600
 * Clayton-le-Moors - 1840
 * Clitheroe St Mary - 1570
 * Clitheroe St James - 1839
 * Clitheroe Castle Chapel - 1683
 * Colne Christchurch - 1599
 * Colne-Barrowford - 1839
 * Downham - 1606
 * Fence-in-Pendle - 1837
 * Goodshaw - 1749
 * Habergham-All Saints - 1845
 * Habergham-Eaves - 1837
 * Haslingden - 1598
 * Heyhouses - 1841
 * Holme St. John-the-Divine (formerly St. John the Evangelist) Holme-in-Cliviger or Holmes Chapel - 1725
 * Lumb St Michaels -1846
 * Marsden, Little - 1725
 * Marsden, Great - 1848
 * Newchurch-in-Pendle - 1574
 * Newchurch-in-Rossendale St Nicholas - 1606
 * Oswaldtwistle, Hippings Chapel - 1817
 * Oswaldtwistle Immanuel's Church - 1836
 * Trawden -1846
 * Padiham - 1573
 * Rawtenstall - 1838
 * Tunstead - 1840 (partly also in Rochdale Parish)
 * Whitewell - 1844
 * Worsthorne - 1848
 * Yate with Pickup Bank -