Livesey, Lancashire

Description
Livesey, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Blackburn parish, Lancashire, on the river Darwen, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and the L. & Y.R., with stations at Cherry Tree and Mill Hill, and 2 1/2 miles SW of Blackburn. Under the Blackburn Corporation Act of 1892 the part of this township within the borough became an integral part of the parish of Blackburn. There are post, money order, and telegraph offices at Cherry Tree and Mill Hill, under Blackburn. Acreage, including Monlden Water, 2036, of which 23 are water; population, 8878, of whom 6145 are in the county borough of Blackburn. There are several cotton mills and brick, tile, and drain-pipe works. Livesey Hall and the greater portion of the land belonged formerly to the Livesey family, now extinct, and it passed by sale in 1802 to the family of Feilden. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal here crosses the river Darwen by a fine one-arched aqueduct. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1877. Population, 8389. The church of St Andrew is a building in the Early English style, erected in 1877, and consists of chancel, nave, transept, and an unfinished tower. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £240 with residence. The parish of St Francis, Fenniscliffe, was formed in 1893 out of the parish of Livesey, and comprises the whole of the N side of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The church was consecrated in 1893. A Congregational chapel at Mill Hill is a handsome erection in the Italian style, was built in 1859-60, and has a lofty tower and spire.