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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Bury | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Bury |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tottington Lower-End)
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: