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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Hundred | Blackburn | |
Poor Law union | Haslingden |
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:
- 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: