Trawden, Lancashire

Description
Trawden, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish, in Whalley parish, Lancashire. The village stands 2 1/2 miles ESE of Colne railway station, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office of the name of Trawden Forest, under Colne. The township includes Winewall and Wycollar hamlets, and comprises 6808 acres; population, 2354. It is governed by a district council of twelve members. The Duke of Buccleuch is lord of the manor. There are cotton mills. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1845, and is less extensive than the township. Population, 1729. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £191 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1845, is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, and embattled western tower. It was re-seated and improved in 1882. There are Free Gospel, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels, and a literary institute built in 1880, a bank, and a cemetery which formerly belonged to the Society of Friends, but is now used for dissenters generally.