Description
Foulridge, a village and a township in Whalley parish, Lancashire, on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the Colne and Skipton railway, 2 miles N of Colne, with a station on the railway, and a post and money order office under Colne; telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 2455; population, 877. There are cotton factories and stone quarries in the township, also three reservoirs of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
