HARWOOD (GREAT), a chapelry in the parish and
lower division of the hundred of BLACKBURN, county
palatine of LANCASTER, 4 miles (N.E.) from Blackburn,
containing 2104 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Blackburn.
The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew.