Digging around for more about Alleytroyds I found the following very informative document about Church and its history
http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloa...st_2007_3_.pdf
I especially liked the following:
Church can probably trace its origins back to the Conquest. It has a recorded
history and survivals that are 800 years old. The site was selected initially for
its favoured topography. It was also blessed with water power and reserves
of coal which sparked the industrial growth that has forged the special
character of the Conservation Area. Church forms a distinct enclave within the larger Accrington conurbation. It is recognised from viewpoints in the
surrounding landscape. It retains considerable heritage interest, possibly
unique of its type including discernible topographic setting, medieval vestiges
and plan-form, node of transport infrastructure, and locus of industrial
revolution sites and buildings.
These elements combine to form character areas of great power that are unlikely to be experienced elsewhere in modern Britain.
It offers a distinct and valuable character setting for sympathetic development, and merits better understanding and treatment.
Assessing Special Interest
The Conservation Area is part of a landscape characterised as “Industrial
Foothills and Valleys”, but has a pre-industrial history dating from the
conquest. By the 13th century its plan form had been established by routes
focussed on the church. The earliest survival is medieval (the church tower).
However the character of the conservation area was defined by Georgian
industrialisation - the canal (1807-87), Bradshaw Street housing 18228 and the turnpike of 1827.
The document mentions Alleytroyds on page 21 but only as an area name, with no historical information.
Further trawling on Google found mention of Alleytroyds in the censuses for 1841, 51 and 61, as an address with people living there.
I also found the following record on Lancs Lantern:
Title: Alleytroyds Theatre, Church and Oswaldtwistle
Newspaper:Accrington Free Press
Issue Date:Mar 13, 1858
Page:4
Column:d
Illustrated:No
Description:Alleytroyds Theatre, Church and Oswaldtwistle
Obituary:No
Library Location:Accrington
Cuttings:No
Classmark:T71
Format:Microfilm
And on the following website:
Place:Blackburn Registration District, 1861 Census Street Index S-T - Your Archives
This is a list of streets and places in the Blackburn Registration District in the 1861 census and includes
Toll Bar Alleytroyds, Church Kirk reference RG 9/3106 folio 13