Huncoat

Huncoat

St Augustine's Church
Huncoat
Location in Hyndburn
Huncoat
Huncoat shown within Lancashire
Population 4,418 (2011 CensusWard)
OS grid reference SD775305
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town ACCRINGTON
Postcode district BB5
Dialling code 01254
Police Lancashire
Fire Lancashire
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK Parliament

Huncoat /ˈhʌnkoʊt/ is a small village in Lancashire, England; situated in the North West. It is located to the east of Accrington. It is a ward of Hyndburn where the population taken at the 2011 census was 4,418.[1]

Huncoat railway station is on the East Lancashire Line.

History

The name is of Anglo-Saxon origin where Hun, or Hunna was a family name and Cotte is an Old English name for a shelter for animals.[2] The brief details of the Blackburnshire hundred in the Domesday survey, mention Huncoat with King Edward holding two carucates of land here.[3]

Governance

Huncoat was once a township in the ancient parish of Whalley, this became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Burnley Rural District from 1894. However, in 1929 the parish was abolished and the area became part of Accrington Municipal Borough (until 1974).[4] It has since become an unparished part of the borough of Hyndburn.

People

References

Citations

  1. ↑ "Hyndburn ward population 2011". Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Ekwall, Eilert (1922). The place-names of Lancashire. Manchester University Press. pp. 91, 9. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Domesday Book Online". domesdaybook.co.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Huncoat Tn/CP through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "X Factor star to tour". Accrington Observer. MEN Media. 2009-12-30. Retrieved 2010-01-02.

Bibliography

  • John Goddard, Huncoat Uncoated, Landy Publishing, 2004 ISBN 1-872895-64-6


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