DARWEN (LOWER), a township in the parish of
BLACKBURN, lower division of the hundred of BLACKBURN,
county palatine of LANCASTER, 2 miles (S. S. E.)
from Blackburn, containing 2238 inhabitants. A chapel
is. now being. erected by the commissioners appointed
under the act passed in the 58th of George III., for
building additional churches, and of which the Vicar of
Blackburn will be patron.