19 Facts About Haslingden

Haslingden is the birthplace of the industrialist John Cockerill and the composer Alan Rawsthorne, and was the home for many years of the Irish Republican leader, Michael Davitt.

Haslingden Cricket Club is a member of the Lancashire League.

The Forest of Rossendale contained eleven vaccaries and was poorly populated, with Haslingden being the only town of significance and with a church.

Haslingden appears to have held markets during the sixteenth century, with the first reference in a Court Roll of 1555 where it records a John Radcliffe being fined for being a 'forestaller of the lords market of Haslyngden'.

Haslingden benefited in particular with the mechanisation of the wool and cotton spinning and weaving industries from the 18th to the 19th centuries, and the development of watermills, and later steam power.

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Haslingden is notable for its stone quarrying, and Haslingden Flag was distributed throughout the country in the 19th century with the opening up of the rail network.

Haslingden Flag is unique; two other, common types of flagstone are found throughout the Pennines, but a third type is found only in the local Haslingden Flags.

Father and son eventually left Haslingden and settled in Belgium, where they built up one of the largest industrial and machinery complexes in mainland Europe.

William's beginning are obscure, although it is likely that he worked as a blacksmith in Haslingden before travelling to St Petersburg, Sweden, and finally to Verviers, near Liege in Belgium.

Haslingden was eventually offered a Chateau in Seraing which then became the heart of Belgium's iron, steel and machine-building industries.

Haslingden is considered to be the founder of Belgian manufacturing and was known as a humanitarian employer.

Subsequently, Haslingden was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1891 and in 1894 the civil parish was extended to match the borders of the borough.

Haslingden was recorded as being one of Whalley's seven independent chapelries, and was served by two priests.

Emmeline Pankhurst once addressed the people of Haslingden from the stage and, after the Battle of the Somme in 1916, it was a temporary hospital for the survivors of the Accrington Pals who were sent home for treatment.

Haslingden High School is a specialist arts, maths and computing college.

Haslingden began working in a cotton mill but at the age of 11 his right arm was entangled in a cogwheel and mangled so badly it had to be amputated.

Haslingden started night classes at the Mechanics' Institute and used its library.

Haslingden was once connected to Accrington and Bury by railway.

Town centre is home to the famous Big Lamp originally erected in 1841 and from where all distances in Haslingden are measured, although the original lamp has been replaced by a replica, the original being lost after being taken to America.