PADIHAM, 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 (w. by N.) from Burnley, containing 3060 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £400 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £900 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Le Gendre Pierce Starkie, Esq. The chapel, dedicated to St. Leonard, has lately received an addition of two hundred and twenty-nine free sittings, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £150 towards defraying the expense. There are places of worship for Wesleyan Methodists and Unitarians. The Leeds and Liverpool canal passes in the vicinity. Coal and stone abound here; and the cotton manufacture is carried on to a considerable extent. A fair is held on August 12th, chiefly for pedlary. A school was erected and endowed by subscription in 1698, in which from seventy to eighty children are instructed, each paying a trifling quarterage.