St Leonard's Parish Church in Padiham Lancashire dates from 1866 to 1869 It occupies the site of earlier churches dating back to 1451 or earlier

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In the1860s to 1950s a truism was that Britain's Bread Hung from Lancashire's Thread. These small northern cotton towns were generating Britain's wealth

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Location: Padiham, Lancashire, England
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