Dalehead Church is set in an isolated spot near Stocks Reservoir in the Forest of Bowland near Slaidburn and alongside Gisburn Forest in Lancashire ... The valley of Dalehead and the village of Stocks in Bowland are no longer to be found on maps of the Forest of Bowland. Sadly the village, Church and farms had to be demolished and the people rehoused, as much of the area was flooded by the construction of a dam in the 1920s and early 1930s to create Stocks Reservoir. This Church was built as a mortuary Chapel in 1936, the original St. James Church was removed together with the graves, and this Chapel was rebuilt using material from the original Parish Church. My grandad (who worked for the water board in those days) was one of the people who took the bodies from the original Churchyard and reburied them here at the new Chapel.

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