NEWCHURCH-in-PENDLE-FOREST, 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, 4 miles (W.) from Colne. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Chester, endowed with £10 per annum
private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of Earl Howe. The chapel ,is dedicated to
St. Mary. There is a place of worship for Wesleyau
Methodists, also an endowed free school.