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Bold, Lancashire

Historical Description

Bold, a township in the chapelry of Farnworth and the parish of Prescot, Lancashire, with a station called Farnworth and Bold on the L. & N.W.R. It includes the hamlets of Maypole and Bold-Heath. Acreage, 4483; population, 947. Warrington is the post town. The family of Bold, now represented by that of Bold-Hoghton, were seated here from the Conquest till 1761; and they give name to Bold Street in Liverpool. The ancient mansion is now a farmhouse, and the modern one is Bold Hall. Bishop Barnes, who died in 1588, was a native.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Bold are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

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