Bradshaw, Lancashire

Historical Description

Bradshaw, a township, a village, and a parish in Lancashire. The township lies on the L. & Y.R., adjacent to the Oaks station, 2¼ miles NE of Bolton, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Bromley Cross. Acreage, 1156; population of township, 647; of the ecclesiastical parish, 2698. Bradshaw Hall was the seat of John Bradshaw, who presided at the trial of Charles I., and is now the seat of the Hardcastle family. The Bradshaw Isherwoods, of Marple, Cheshire, still own nearly all the land in the township, and Mr Isherwood is lord of the manor. There are bleaching, calico printing, dyeing, and finishing works. The living is a vicarage in the the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £350 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Bolton. The church, built in Early English style, is dedicated to St Maxentius.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

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

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bradshaw from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bradshaw)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Bradshaw 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:

• Blackburn Standard
• Burnley Express
• Lancashire Evening Post
• Lancaster Gazette
• Burnley Gazette
• Preston Chronicle
• Burnley Advertiser
• Burnley News