READ, a township in that part of the parish of
WHALLEY which is in the higher division of the hundred
of BLACKBURN, county palatine of LANCASTER,
5 miles (S. S. E.) from Clitheroe, containing 510 inhabitants.
Edmund Dickenson, in 1743, bequeathed £ 60
towards the support of a schoolmaster; and in 1798,
James Hilton demised land, and a house to be used as a
school; the income is about £ 6 a year, for which five
poor children are taught free.