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Whilst I was searching in the store room at Accy Libray, I came across this, it was in a pile of uncatalogued records.
Baxenden Nov 18th 1854.
Residents of Baxenden, within one mile from the mile stone at the head of Shop Lane. Numb of houses occupied 350, numb unoccupied 37, numb under construction 37, population 1737, lodgers 108, total 1845.
This was a new one on me, no record of where it came from, and loads of places I had never heard of before.
Retlaw.

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it has rising bridge and stonefold on there as well .... some of the farms on there are in rising bridge .. you need anzac for this ...

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I know where most of the named buildings are, especially the farms, one of my jobs in the Fire Brigade was to update the farm records, as to access & water supplies. Its just that some of the buildings it mentions I have never heard of before, such as Myrtle Terrace.
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If I was to hazard a guess, Myrtle Terrace may well have become Hill Street.

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That street at one time was known as Bullough Row.
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Just ran a check on the 1851 census, and not one of 9 the people mentioned as living in Myrtle Terrace, are to be found any where in Accrington. Mighty strange for 9 people to suddenly appear 3 years later.
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Just checked Wilson's Row, 11 people are there in the 1854 list, but only 3 of them are in the 1851 census. Beginning to doubt the accuracy of that list, especially as my Great Grand Mother was living in one of the Shoe Mill Cottages in 1854, my Grand Father was born there in 1854.
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I don't know if they are available, but it might be worth checking for the names in the St John's, Bash, Parish registers. It would be unusual for a record to be 100% inaccurate. A good find.

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Hi Retlaw, but, wasnt this the time of the railways appearing. I know for a fact that a family, closely connected to my own family, the LARDER'S, only moved into the area from down south, due to one of their ancestors being a railway engineer. The family have stayed in Bash ever since.

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In my case, great grandparents came to Accrington looking for work on the Railways, but all work on the railways round here had been completed by 1847, so great grandma stayed in Bash, great grandad carried on to try & find work in Crewe.

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Might be, but was St John's in existence then, there is no mention of the church or a vicarage.
Back in those days most went to Stonefold.
Retlaw.

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Baxenden Church was consecrated in June 1877 and Stonefold in 1890 so the records if any would be further afield

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Just remembered that one of my ancestors lived at Myrtle House, Hill Street, Baxenden in the 1911 census

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With "10 now in erection", Myrtle Terrace was incomplete at the time and the name may have been intended but not used.
A clue to a connection with Hill Street may well be Myrtle Bank at the bottom of the row.
I thought Bullough's Row was just a local nickname. I half remember hearing it when I lived there.
The earliest reference to Hill Street I have found is in the Insolvents list in the London Gazette of 15th April 1856. "WHEREAS a Petition of Henry Dawson, at present and for eight months last past living in lodgings at No. 1, Hill-street, Baxenden, within New Accrington".