Description
Hapton, a township in Whalley parish, Lancashire, on the L. & Y.R., and on the Liverpool and Leeds Canal, 3 miles WSW of Burnley. It has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Burnley. Acreage, 4008; population, 3395. There are cotton factories, chemical works, stone quarries, and a colliery. Old seats here belonged to the Haberghams and the Shuttle-worths, and the chief property now belongs to the Townley family, who are lords of the manor. There are a Church of England place of worship, a Wesleyan chapel, and a Roman Catholic church, erected in 1881.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
