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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cowpe like this:
COWPE-LENCHES, NEWHALLHEY, AND HALL-CARR, a township in Bury parish, Lancashire; E of the river Irwell, 4 miles SSE of Haslingden. Acres, 1, 545. Pop., 2, 851. Houses, 579.
Cowpe is now part of ROSSENDALE District. Click here for graphs and data of how ROSSENDALE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cowpe itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cowpe, in Rossendale and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22472
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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