Brierfield, a township and an ecclesiastical district in the ancient parish of Whalley, 2 1/2 miles from Burnley, Lancashire, with a station on the L. & Y.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Burnley. Area of the urban sanitary district, 1051 acres; population, 5888; of the ecclesiastical district, 6060. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £256 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester. The church is a building in the Gothic style, and was erected in 1872. There are four dissenting chapels. Brierfield is governed by a local board, and the inhabitants are chiefly employed in cotton manufacture.
