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.
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:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: