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Sharples, Lancashire

Historical Description

Sharples, a township in Bolton-le-Moors parish, Lancashire. It lies 2¼ miles N of Bolton station, on the L. & Y.R. and L. & N.W.R., and its post town and money order and telegraph office is Astley Bridge, under Bolton. It contains the villages of Belmont, Banktop, Sweet Loves, High Houses, Gale, Folds, Piccadilly, Water Meetings, Old Houses, and part of Astley Bridge. Acreage, 5051; population, 6981. There are cotton mills, calico print-works, and extensive bleach-works. Eden's Orphanage School at Astley Bridge was erected in 1879, at the cost of over £12,000, and was enlarged in 1885 and again in 1890. The township forms with, and under the name of, Astley Bridge an ecclesiastical parish. Population, 6239. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £290 with residence. Patron, the Crown and the Bishop alternately. There are Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan chapels at Astley Bridge. Belmont was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1861. Population, 818.

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 Sharples from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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

DistrictBolton
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBL1
Post TownBolton

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