Place:


Read  Lancashire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Read like this:

READ, a township in Whalley parish, Lancashire; 2 miles E of Whalley r. station. Acres, 1, 490. Real property, £2, 982. Pop., 531. Houses, 101. Read Hallis the seat of R. Fort, Esq. There are a cotton-mill and a national school.

Read through time

Read is now part of Ribble Valley district. Click here for graphs and data of how Ribble Valley has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Read itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Read, in Ribble Valley and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10768

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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