The church was established in 1882 as Brooklands Road Wesleyan Methodist Chapel by members from Fulledge Methodist Church. Their war memorial, viewable in Towneley Hall, names eighteen men who died in service during World War One. In 1961 the church merged with Rehoboth Chapel of Springfield Road and chose the new name of Towneley Chapel. It closed 2002.

By Richard Catlow:

Two more Burnley Express "Best of Burnley" awards are revealed this week as civic trust members, town planner David Ellis, Padiham artist Duncan Armstrong and myself, continue our tour of the town, looking for the people and places huh are making Burnley a better place in which to live. Meanwhile the Burnley Express photographers and I have been taking a close look at the area of town between The Ridge and Healey Heights.

Burnley couple Trevor and Jacqueline Wooller have never got around to opening their stately home to the public. In fact, as Mrs Wooller admits, most people don't even know that their home - just about the most historic in the town - exists at all. For Hufling Hall, built in 1696 and outwardly little changed since that date, has never figured prominently in the pages of history books. It has remained tucked away in Burnley Wood keeping a low profile, as befits its age. But when the hall was built Burnley Wood really was a wood, and there were acres of green fields and countryside around the house. It was the Victorians who hemmed in Hufling Hall with ranks of terraced houses, until the great vistas from its windows shrunk to the width of a cobbled street, and its grounds became nothing more than a small apron of garden. The fortunes of the house had sunk to their lowest in 1959 when Mr and Mrs Wooller, then newly married, set up home there. â