Description
Huncoat, a village and a township in Church Kirk parish; Lancashire. The village stands on a rising ground, adjacent to the L. & Y.R., 1 1/2 mile NE by E of Accrington, and has a station on the railway. There is a post and money order office under Accrington; telegraph office, Accrington. The township comprises 990 acres; population, 956. The Duke of Bncclench is lord of the manor. The Accrington Cemetery and the reservoir of the Accrington Waterworks are in or on the borders of this township. The church is a building in the Early English style, erected in 1886 as a chapel of ease to Church or Church Kirk. There are also Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
