Reedley Hallows, Filly Close and New Laund Booth , Lancashire Genealogy

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Chapelry History
Reedley Hallows, Filly Close and New Laund Booth is an extra-parochial place. Search surrounding parishes for records and information.

BOOTH, OLD LAUND, a township, in the chapelry of Newchurch-in-Pendle, parish of Whalley, union of Burnley, Higher division of the hundred of Blackburn, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 3 miles (N.) from Burnley; containing 481 inhabitants. It lies on the north-east side of Pendle forest, and consists of 246 acres, with scattered houses amidst tolerably wooded pastures. Old Laund Hall is a very ancient stronglybuilt fabric; it was some time since purchased by Mr. Greenwood, of Palace House, from the lords of Clitheroe. A church dedicated to St. Anne was built at Fence, in Old Laund, in 1837, and endowed by the late Mrs. Holden, of Palace House: the living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Holden family. There is a national school.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 302-305. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50812 Date accessed: 20 July 2010.

Fence St Anne was a chapelry of Whalley, Lancashire

Fence lies in the civil parish of Old Laund Booth, which was in the Hundred of Blackburn. Up until Late medieval times it lay in the Forest of Pendle, i.e. in the hunting preserve of the King. The name of the village is derived from the fact that an enclosure was erected in the area within which the King's deer were kept. This became known as the "Fence" and the community that built up around it over time took the name. In 1507 Henry VII "surrendered [the parcel called the Fence] to the use of the tenants of Higham, West Close and Goldshaw Booth, to be held by them and their heirs for ever". First mention of Fence is in a document of 1402 as 'Fens in Penhill'.

Being near Pendle Hill, Fence has a long shared history with other Pendleside villages and the Pendle Witches.

Civil Registration
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Parish registers for Fence-in-Pendle, 1837-1900 Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Fence-in-Pendle is a chapelry in the parish of Whalley. Lancashire Record Office no.: PR 3175/1/1-3, 8-9

Bishop's transcripts for Fence-in-Pendle, 1871-1874 Microfilm of original records at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. Fence-in-Pendle is a chapelry in the parish of Whalley.

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Poor Law Unions
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Probate records
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendle_witch_trials for further information about the Pendle Witch trials. Fence in Pendle contains living descendants of one of those executed for witchcraft.