DOWNHAM, a chapelry in that part of the parish of WHALLEY which is in the higher division of the hundred of BLACKBURN, county palatine of LANCASTER, 3 miles (JE.N.E.) from Clitheroe, containing 620 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and dioce.se of Chester,, endowed with £ 10 per annum and £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty. . Earl Howe was patron in 1818» The chapel is dedicated to St, Peter. Ralph Assheton, by will without date, gave £ 110 to be laid out in land for the support of a school, the income arising from which is £26 a year j of this sum, £21 is appropriated to the instruction of fifteen children, and the rest is retained for repairs; adjoining the school-room are apartments for the master.