Cuerden is a village and
civil parish
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of the
Borough of Chorley, in
Lancashire
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, England. It is situated between
Bamber Bridge and
Leyland, and had a population of 77 in 2001.
Office for National Statistics : ''Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Chorley''
Retrieved 6 February 2010 At the 2011 census the population was included within Clayton-le-Woods civil parish.
History
The name speculatively derives from the Welsh ''cerdin'', the plural of ''cerdinen'', " rowan", although the nearby Cuerdale derives from an Anglo-Saxon personal name. It could also be a derivation of 'coeur de lion' or Lionheart. The manor was given to Vivian Molyneux by Roger de Poitou and devolved to the Banastres, Charnocks, Langtons, and Fleetwoods.country house
image:Blenheim - Blenheim Palace - 20210417125239.jpg, 300px, Blenheim Palace - Oxfordshire
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a Townhou ...
begun in the 1717 on the site of a 17th-century house, and extended between 1816 and 1819 by Lewis Wyatt. During the Industrial Revolution
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, two cotton mills
Cotton (), first recorded in ancient India, is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a wikt:boll, boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus ''Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almo ...
were built by the river by William Clayton and William Eccles, and employed more than seven hundred people in 1848.[
St Saviour's Church was built in 1836–37, to a design by the architect Edmund Sharpe.
]
Governance
Cuerden was a township in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Leyland and the Leyland hundred.[ It became part of the Chorley ]Poor Law Union
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Poor law unions existed in England and Wales from 1834 to 1930 for the administration of poor relief. Prior to the Poor Law Amendment ...
, formed in 1837, which took responsibility for the administration and funding of the Poor Law
In English and British history, poor relief refers to government and ecclesiastical action to relieve poverty. Over the centuries, various authorities have needed to decide whose poverty deserves relief and also who should bear the cost of hel ...
and built a workhouse in that area.
Geography
Cuerden covered 800 acres about 4½ miles south east of Preston on the River Lostock on the road between Preston and Wigan
Wigan ( ) is a town in Greater Manchester, England. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. It is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its ad ...
.
See also
* Listed buildings in Cuerden
* St Saviour's Church, Cuerden
References
External links
Cuerden
chorley.gov.uk.
Geography of Chorley
Villages in Lancashire
Civil parishes in Lancashire
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