Town / Index no : Pendle Forest - PEN.Ing.01
Map references : OS SD 839384
Name : Wheatley Inghamite Chapel
Denomination : Inghamite
Address : Wheatley Lane Road, Fence-in-Pendle (Wheatley Carr Booth)
(now part of The Parish of Old Laund Booth)
Minister : Rev.Matthew Butler, The Ferns, Wheatley Lane Road, Fence, Burnley
Telephone : 01282 613598
Secretary : Judith Moretta, 11 Hawthorn Grove, Barrowford, telephone 01282 693135

Parish Registers at County Record Office, listed in "Finding Folk"
MIs, see Fence, Wheatley Lane
Local Sources for Copies of Parish Registers
C 1751-1866, B 1751-1837, 'Laycock' transcript at Burnley Library
C 1751-1866 on IGI for Lancashire
Graveyard
Large - about 24,000 burials to date
Non-conformists from Burnley, Brierfield & Nelson were buried here. The old part of the burial ground is overgrown in summer
Still in use, also an area for memorials of cremations
Memorial Inscriptions
Part of the graveyard was transcribed in 1980 - 446 headstones
Local Copies of Memorial Inscriptions
Colne & Nelson Libraries
Brief History
1749 Start of building of Chapel
1851 Religious Census = Chapel built 1750
1856 No marriages before this date (Wheatley Carr Booth was in the Castle parish of Clitheroe and marriages should have taken place at St.Mary Magdalene in Clitheroe before 1856). The original marriage register 1856-1943 is missing
1896 Chapel enlarged
see ' Inghamite church history: collected from the memoirs and journals of the Rev. Mr. Benjamin Ingham ...'