Description
Downham, a village, a township, and, with the adjoining township of Twiston, a parish in Lancashire. The township is on the boundary of Yorkshire, 1 mile E of Chatburn railway station, and 3 miles NE of Clitheroe, and has a post office under Clitheroe; money order and telegraph office, Chatburn. Acreage, 2300; population of township, 237 ; of the ecclesiastical iparish, 308. The manor, with Downham Hall, belongs to >the Asshetons. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £174: with residence. Patrons, Hulme's Trustees. The church is good, and there is a Wesleyan chapel. A school has £40 from endowment.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
