The village of Huncoat can trace its origins to the Domesday survey produced by William the Conqueror in 1086.
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 small animals.
In 1835 Huncoat was a township in the parish of Whalley.
In 1974 it joined with other neighbouring towns to form the borough of Hyndburn.
Huncoat has its own railway station and is served by one primary school, Accrington Huncoat Primary School.
The M65 lies to the north of the village.
The village pushes the Britain in Bloom initiative and is trying to resist plans to transform the former power station site into a waste treatment plant.
Huncoat was also a mining village and had 2 brick works.
We were one of the first familys to move onto the Whithin Grove estate in 1953,
My father and brothers worked in the pit.
Dorothy
Huncoat was also a mining village and had 2 brick works.
We were one of the first familys to move onto the Whithin Grove estate in 1953,
My father and brothers worked in the pit.
Dorothy
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