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Oct 14, 2013 · A few weeks ago, after making a Powerpoint presentation on local history to a Burnley-based charitable organisation, a gentleman came up to me and asked me a question to which I could not give him a satisfactory answer. The question was: “Why is St James’s Street so called?”
Oct 12, 2020 · Early records have the settlement as originally been called Bornley, or other variants of the names. Archaeologists have found stone age circles, hill forts, and even flint tools. This leads us to believe that Burnley was a town long before the dark ages.
Aug 21, 2012 · He was head of Burnley’s biggest commercial enterprise, the Hargreaves Colliery Company which, among other mines, operated Bank Hall Colliery. I asked a few people about the names of these gardens, and the ones between Briercliffe Road and Thursby Road, and most thought all three were called Thursby Gardens.
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Though BURNLEY has been called amanor, (fn. 17) it was and is properly speaking amember of the manor of Ightenhill, inthe honor of Clitheroe; the manor courts have longbeen held at Higham for Pendle Forest and at Burnleyfor the rest of the manor. The tenure was to a largeextent copyhold, but much of it has now beenenfranchised. In 1242 the yearly v...
With the growth of the town acentury ago some change in its government became necessary. An Act wasobtained in 1819 giving the control of the watching,lighting, cleansing and generalregulation of the town to abody consisting of the chiefconstable, deputy constablesand sixteen commissionerschosen from the inhabitants. (fn. 87) In the same year a Pri...
The church of ST. PETER (fn. 108) standsat the north-east end of the town in alow situation on the south bank of theRiver Brun, here flowing in a series of curves andpartly inclosing on three sides the neck of land onwhich the building is situated. The church consistsof chancel with north and south chapels and southvestry, nave with north and south...
The ancient cross at Burnley suggests the existence of a church therefrom an early time (fn. 124); otherwise thefirst record of one is in the grant of Whalley Churchto the monks of Pontefract about 1121, the charterof Hugh de la Val including with it the 'church' ofBurnley. (fn. 125) The deans of Whalley probably held ittogether with the principal ...
Official inquiries were made intothe charities of Burnley in 1826 and1899, but the later one was partialonly, the county borough being excluded. Thefollowing details are taken from the reports issued,endowments for schools and churches being omitted: Isabel widow of Richard Shireburne of Stonyhurstin 1693 left 190 for the poor of Burnley, and in182...
Mar 30, 2018 · The first hall was built at Towneley in 1380 and was a large open barn-like medieval building, similar to the ones still seen at Smithills in Bolton and Warton Old Rectory near Carnforth. Seventy years later the huge south wing with its very thick walls was constructed.
Aug 28, 2014 · So Burnley developed, at first, into the most important village in this part of north east Lancashire but that was all it was until not much more than 200 years ago. The facilities that were available at the site made the early village.
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Burnley is a historic market town, and is surrounded by breathtaking Penine countryside. It developed into one of the most prosperous mill towns in Lancashire during the Industrial Revolution. Burnley was one of the world’s largest cloth producers at its peak.
