CHURCH-TOWN, a chapelry in that part of the
parish of WHALLEY which is in the lower division of the
hundred of BLACKBURN, county palatine of LANCASTER,
4 miles (E.) from Blackburn, containing 752 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Chester, endowed with £10
per annum and £200 private benefaction, £200 royal
bounty, and £700 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of Earl Howe. The chapel is dedicated to St.
James. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.