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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Baxenden like this:
BAXENDEN, a large village in Whalley parish, Lancashire; on the East Lancashire railway, 1¼. mile N of Haslingden. It has a post office under Accrington, a r. station, two cotton mills, and a colliery.
Baxenden is now part of HYNDBURN District. Click here for graphs and data of how HYNDBURN has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Baxenden itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Baxenden, in Hyndburn and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25189
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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