ALTHAM, a chapelry in that part of the pari.sh of
WHALLEY which is in the higher division of the hundred
of BLACKBURN, county palatine of LANCASTER, 5
miles (W.) from Burnley, containing 439 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Chester, endowed with £ 10 per annum
private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of Earl Howe.
The chapel is dedicated to St. James. Coal is obtained
in the vicinity.