Moses Gate, Lancashire
Historical Description
Moses Gate, part of Farnworth-with-Kearsley ecclesiastical parish, Lancashire, with a station on the Bolton and Manchester line of the L. & Y.R., in the southern vicinity of Bolton. There are a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Farnworth (R.S.O.), and a mission church.
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 Moses Gate 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: