BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



WHALLEY 



CLITHEROE 



CHATBURN 



WORSTON 



MEARLEY 



BOWLAND WITH LEAGRAM 



WHALLEY 



MITTON, HENTHORN AND COLD- 

 COATS 



PENDLETON WITH PENDLETON 

 HALL,STANDEN AND STANDEN HEY 



WI SWELL 



CHURCH 



OSWALDTWISTLE 



HUNCOAT 



ALTHAM 



CLAYTON-LE-MOORS 



OLD ACCRINGTON 



NEW ACCRINGTON 



HASLINGDEN 



HIGHER BOOTHS 



LOWER BOOTHS 



HENHEADS 



NEWCHURCH 



BURNLEY 



HABERGHAM EAVES 



BRIERCLIFFE WITH EX TWISTLE 



WORSTHORNE WITH HURSTWOOD 



CLIVIGER 



IGHTENHILL PARK 



REEDLEY HALLOWS, FILLY CLOSE AND 



NEW LAUND BOOTH 

 PADIHAM 

 SIMONSTONE 

 READ 

 HAPTON 



HIGHAM WITH WEST CLOSE BOOTH 

 HEYHOUSES 

 DUNNOCKSHAW 

 GOLDSHAW BOOTH 

 BARLEY WITH WHEATLEY BOOTH 

 ROUGH LEE BOOTH 

 WHEATLEY CARR BOOTH 

 OLD LAUND BOOTH 

 COLNE 

 MARSDEN 



BARROWFORD BOOTH 

 FOULRIDGE 

 TRAWDEN 

 DOWNHAM 

 TWISTON 



The ancient parish of Whallcy had an area of 

 106,395 acres, of which a small part lay in Yorkshire, 

 as Bowland Forest. In Lancashire there were three 

 considerable forest districts, Pendle, Trawden and 

 Rossendale, all belonging to the honor of Clitheroe. 

 Of the ancient history there is little to be said beyond 

 what is connected with Clitheroe and the abbey of 

 Whalley. There are a few prehistoric remains and 

 traces of Roman roads from Ribchester through 

 Clitheroe north-east and through Burnley south- 

 east. 



The sculptured crosses at Whalley and Burnley 

 may point to English conquest during the 7th cen- 

 tury, soon followed by conversion to Christianity 

 and the erection of churches at those places. The 

 first occurrence of the district in written history is in 

 798, when during Lent on z April a great battle was 

 fought at Whalley in Northumbria, Alric son of 

 Heardbert being slain and many more with him.' 



Before the Conquest Whalley was the ecclesiastical 

 head of the district, its church having a liberal en- 

 dowment, and this superiority may have dated from 

 the labours of the first missionaries. The 14th- 

 century tradition that the original parish extended 

 across the Ribble is probably erroneous, for the later 

 ecclesiastical boundaries of that district agree with 

 Domesday Book in attaching it to Amounderness and 

 York ; and the connexion of Bowland and Leagram 

 with Whalley parish, or rather with Clitheroe Chapel, 



is obviously artificial, being due to the secular lord- 

 ship of the Lacys and their successors. 



The chief centres of population in the earlier 

 period are probably marked by the most ancient of 

 the chapelries, Whalley, Clitheroe, Burnley and 

 Colne ; by 1296 Altham, Downham, Church and 

 Haslingden had been added. A record of the 

 boundaries in the time of Edward III has been pre- 

 served.' The numerous booths or vaccaries within 

 the so-called forests ceased to be put to farm in 

 1507, when they were demised to the occupiers to 

 hold by copy of court roll. As a result new villages 

 sprang up at Goodshaw and elsewhere. 



The district round Clitheroe was very disaffected 

 to the religious changes made by Henry VIII, and 

 the opposition called the Pilgrimage of Grace ob- 

 tained considerable support. The Earl of Derby, in 

 command of the county force, was at Whalley in 

 November 1536 and wrote that he did not trust the 

 people of the shire on the borders of Lancashire and 

 Yorkshire, near Whalley and Sawley.' One of the 

 proclamations of the Pilgrimage forbade aid to be 

 given to the earl or to anyone not sworn for the 

 Commonwealth and ordered all of sixteen years of age 

 to be on Clitheroe Moor on the Monday after 

 SS. Simon and Jude's Day (30 October).* A Chorley 

 witness deposed that he had been told by adherents 

 that 'the Commons were between that place and 

 Whalley.' ' The fate of the Abbot of Whalley for 



1 Anglo-Sax. Chron. an. 798. 



» lyhdUy Couch. (Chet. Soc), i, 333. 



&c. 



' t, and F. Hen. Fill, xi, 901, i;i8. 



349 



< Ibid. 892 (2). 

 ^ Ibid. 1230. 



