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Tunstead, Lancashire

Historical Description

Tunstead, an ecclesiastical parish, constituted in 1858 from Whalley and Rochdale parishes, Lancashire, 4 miles ESE of Haslingden. It comprises parts of the townships of Spotland and Newchurch-in-Rossendale, and contains the railway station and post, money order, and telegraph office of Stacksteads, under Manchester. Population, 6985. There are many neat villas. Cotton manufacture, woollen manufacture, and stone quarrying are largely carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £290 with residence. The church was built in 1840 and enlarged in 1873, and consists of chancel, nave, W porch, and an octagonal western tower with spire. There are Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels, Liberal, Conservative, and working-men's clubs, and a church institute.

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 
HundredBlackburn 
Poor Law unionHaslingden 

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 Tunstead from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Tunstead 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:

DistrictOldham
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtOL3
Post TownOldham

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