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Harwood, Lancashire

Historical Description

Harwood, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Bolton-le-Moors civil parish, Lancashire. The village stands 3 miles NE of Bolton, 4 W of Bury, and about 1 mile from the Oaks station on the L. & Y.R. The township comprises 1240 acres; population, 1564. Post town, Bolton; money order office, Bradshaw; telegraph office, Bromley Cross. There are stone quarries and small bleach-works. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1841, and consists of parts of Harwood and Breightmet townships. The remaining part of Harwood township is comprised in Bradshaw ecclesiastical parish. Population, 1050. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £300 with residence. The church was erected in 1840, in the Late Romanesque style, and has a small tower. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Walsh's Educational Institute, established in 1872, comprises library, lecture-hall, reading-room, &c. It is open to the public on payment of a small fee.

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

Administration

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

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishBolton 
HundredSalford 
Poor Law unionBolton 

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.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Harwood from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Harwood 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:

CountyBolton

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