Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BOOTHS (Higher)

BOOTHS (Higher), a township in Whalley parish, Lancashire; on the Manchester and Accrington railway, near the Baxenden station, 5 miles SSW of Burnley. Acres, 2,000. Real property, £21,097; of which £6,189 are in mines. Pop., 5,131. Houses, 968. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in cotton factories and in collieries.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Higher Booths CP/Tn       Whalley Tn/AP/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place names: BOOTHS     |     BOOTHS HIGHER     |     HIGHER BOOTHS
Place: Higher Booths

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