Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word HAPTON

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Definitions of HAPTON

1. A village and cpar in, Burnley, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7931).
2. A village in Tharston and Hapton, South Norfolk, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM1796).

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Examples of Using HAPTON in a Sentence

• Councillors for Padiham on Burnley Borough Council are elected to the Gawthorpe Ward, which covers most of Padiham, but not Gawthorpe Hall, with southern and eastern areas covered by Hapton with Park Ward.
• Burnley Rural District (parishes of Briercliffe, Cliviger, Dunnockshaw, Habergham Eaves, Hapton, Ightenhill, North Town, Simonstone and Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood only, rest split between Pendle, Ribble Valley and Hyndburn).
• Permission to construct the reservoir at Clowbridge—historically known as the Hapton Reservoir—on the Limy Water, was contained in the 1853 that act created the Haslingden and Rawtenstall Waterworks Company.
• Gifts of parish churches included Hapton and Wreningham, Gateley and St Martin at Quarles and later in 1365 of St Andrew, Great Ringstead.
• It administered the area containing the civil parishes of Altham, Barley-with-Wheatley Booth, Blacko, Briercliffe, Brunshaw (merged with Burnley in 1911), Cliviger, Dunnockshaw, Foulridge, Goldshaw Booth, Habergham Eaves, Hapton, Heyhouses (part of Sabden after 1904), Higham with West Close Booth, Huncoat (merged with Accrington in 1929), Ightenhill, Old Laund Booth, Newchurch in Pendle, Northtown (today split between Ightenhill, Higham and Simonstone), Old Laund Booth, Read, Reedley Hallows, Roughlee Booth, Sabden (after 1904), Simonstone, Trawden, Wheatly Carr Booth (merged with Old Laund Booth in 1935), Worsthorne with Hurstwood.
• Long Stratton borders five other parishes: Tharston and Hapton, Tasburgh, Morningthorpe and Fritton, Pulham Market, and Wacton.
• From 14 May 2012, Pleasington became a request only stop, in addition to Hapton, Burnley Barracks and Huncoat.
• On 14 May 2012, Hapton became a request only stop, along with Huncoat, Burnley Barracks and Pleasington.
• The constituency, officially named North East Lancashire, Accrington Division consisted of the Municipal Borough of Accrington, and the parishes of Altham, Church, Clayton-le-Moors, Hapton, Huncoat, Oswaldtwistle, and Rishton.
• This privilege was used to nominate Alice de Belhus on the accession of King Edward II in 1307, Margaret Swinford (daughter of Katherine Swynford and later abbess) on the accession of King Richard II in 1377, Maud Kylet in 1404 (five years after the accession of King Henry IV), and Goda Hapton in 1430 (eight years after the accession of King Henry VI).
• Piers expanded the family's landholdings further with the estates of Rogerstead in the Heaton area of Bolton (1726), Shuttleworth in Hapton (1734), Snydale, Westhoughton (1744), Coldcoats, Pendleton, Sunderland, Balderstone (1756), Lovely, Salesbury (1757), and (Great) Mearley in Mearley (1758).
• While Gilbert would take control at Hapton and also purchase the neighbouring manor of Birtwistle in 1356, Richard would take Towneley.
• Other nearby settlements include Hapton and hamlets of Clowbridge and Dunnockshaw in the Borough of Burnley, Huncoat and Baxenden in Hyndburn, and Crawshawbooth, Goodshaw and Loveclough in the Borough of Rossendale.
• Today the Burnley Methodist Circuit consists of nine active churches in the town and the surrounding district - at Briercliffe Road, Brierfield, Brunshaw, Central, Greenbrook, Hapton, Padiham Road, Parkside and Wheatley Lane.
• Crosley lived at Hapton, near Padiham, and subsequently at Goodshaw, where in his old age he kept a school.
• Its site was later occupied by coke ovens linked by tramroads to Hapton Valley and a coal staithe on the canal.
• The seams worked at Hapton Valley were "gassy", with very high levels of firedamp recorded at the face.

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