Huncoat

Huncoat
240px St Augustine's Church, Huncoat
Huncoat  Huncoat shown within Lancashire
Population	4,418 (2011 CensusWard)
OS grid reference	SD775305
District	Hyndburn
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
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	Hyndburn
List of places UK England Lancashire

Huncoat 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.

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. The brief details of the Blackburnshire hundred in the Domesday survey, mention Huncoat with King Edward holding two carucates of land here.

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). It has since become an unparished part of the borough of Hyndburn.

People

• Harold Davenport, mathematician
• Hollie Steel, child soprano
• Diana Vickers, an actress, singer-songwriter and fashion designer

References

Citations

Bibliography

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

External links

• Huncoat history site