HOLME, 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 (S. E. by S.) from Burnley. The population is
returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £120
parliamentary grant. - Whittaker, Esq. was patron
in 1822. William Whittaker, a controversial divine,-
was born here in 1548; he died in 1595.