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Tottington Lower End, Lancashire

Historical Description

Tottington-Lower-End, a township at lower end of Tottington manor, Lancashire, including the villages and most part of the ecclesiastical parishes of Tottington, Walshaw, and Hawkshaw Lane. Acreage, 5271; population, 16,837. It has a parish council of fifteen members. There are a few good residences, chief of which is Walshaw Hall. Cotton manufacture, printing, and bleaching are the chief employments. There are also Wesleyan and Congregational chapels, and a so-called Free Church of England.

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 parishBury 
HundredSalford 
Poor Law unionBury 

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 Tottington Lower End from the following:


Land and Property

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


Newspapers and Periodicals

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