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Church Records and Religion
Saint Bartholomew’s Parish Church
Our Lady and St Hubert’s RC Church
Dunkenhalgh and St Mary Enfield Roman Catholic Chapel
Recusants 1682
Return of Papists 1767
Parish Chest
Settlement Certificates
Poor Law Accounts
Probate
Manor and Property
A True Bill for Riot Onlie 1603
Boundaries of Billington and Great Harwood 1733
Hesketh Survey 1735
Lease of Squires Farm 1746 – Hesketh to Mercer
Martholme Lease to Farrington and Hartley 1695
Trappes-Lomax Notebook of Leases
Nowell Bargain and Sale 1754
Stoops Bargain and Sale 1773
Enclosure by Agreement 1762
Nowell to Hindle Lease 1763
Survey of Nowell Lands 1765
Higher Butts Lease and Release 1782
Tithes
Taxation and Goverment
Poll Tax 1379
Lay Subsidy 1660
Hearth Tax 1666
Land Tax
Window Tax
Directories
Baines 1825
Pigots 1828
Mannex 1854
Barretts 1878
Barretts 1881
Barretts 1885
Barretts 1888
Barretts 1891
Barretts 1894
Barretts 1897
Barretts 1903
Barretts 1906
Barretts 1909
Barretts 1912
Barretts 1915
Barretts 1935
Maps
Plan of part of Great Harwood and Rishton 1582
1603
Enclosure Plan 1762
1763 Plan of Fields
Plan of Roads c. 1796
Isherwood Estate 1814
1853 Plan of Birches Farm – later the Plough Inn
Miscellany
Mercer Memorial Souvenir
Snuffy ‘Arrod
Miscellany
This page is for those items that don’t fit easily into any of the other categories – snippets and little bits of history.
Mercer Memorial Souvenir 1903
Snuffy ‘Arrod